You really don't want your 3rd grader, who is working at an average 4th grade rate moved ahead a year.
Right,
I don't but it is not uncommon where I live. Most of the kids who are working above grade level are identified as gifted in the two local schools we have attended (which may be why btwn 20-40% of the kids in my girls' school have a gifted id) and we personally know two kids who were skipped a grade without IQ scores -- b/c the parents really pushed for it & the kids were performing at least one grade level above level in most or all subjects.
I know that this is a pet peeve of mine, but b/c so many of these kids (bright, high achievers) are not in the traditional classroom, but rather in a GT pull-out class for part of the day, the traditional classroom really
doesn't offer enrichment appropriate for kids who need more than avg grade level work -- at least where we live.
After all, how many of us would be happy if our child were operating at an average level for a particular grade in an average school?
I wouldn't certainly. The only reason we agreed to move dd#1 up a grade was b/c we were as confident as we could be that she would still be an above avg student in the next grade up, which thus far she has been.
I just hadn't seen a chart like that before and I guess that it caught me off guard to see what the expectations were for bright, but not gifted, kids in terms of achievement. It also gave me insight into why our TAG classes are so full when achievement scores are all you need to get the kids in.
