The teacher thinks that because DD is highly gifted and so much more advanced than any other student she has ever had that she should always make choices based on giving herself the harder option of work.
This is where I've casually dropped in my "broccoli" analogy. If given the choice, our DS would not
choose to add broccoli to his plate; we must make the choice for him.
I'm sure there are those select few who might routinely choose the more challenging work, but seriously, what 6/7/8 year-old kid, gifted or otherwise, is not going to opt for the easy choice?
If she's heck-bent on giving options, then simply offer two different assignments with roughly equivalent challenges. Tonight, for instance, our son got to choose between broccoli and spinach... the end result for us wasn't terribly important, but he got to make the choice. (He chose broccoli!)
