I think most of the posts sum up my view. Differentiation is best. Accelerate them and they just figure all that work out too and are still waiting. But the problem is - as is posted - differentiation gets mostly face talk. It ends up being a work sheet or writing another page. It doesn't end up in all cases as truly challenging, exciting work. While acceleration isn't perfect either - at least it isn't a constant battle that I've found with the differentiation claim.
We skipped k. And decided against professional advice not to skip 2nd. Now I'm not sure we made the right choice. There is no perfect here. I've been off the board much of this year tryig to hide in the sand and wish "it" all away. They don't complain much so it was easy. But we are wasting their little minds and rotting their souls (can you tell I'm in a funk) and worst yet - to me - they are not headed to learning ANY kind of work ethic. Some day they'll want something - it will be hard - and they won't know how to meet a challenge. Where is the cholocate? I wish the new president had HG/PG kids in public school so we'd have turned a new page on this... UGGGGGG! Is anyone out there just feeling tired of this not being a simple, check the box and move on?
