Originally Posted by Val
Originally Posted by namaste
The teachers wanted to send her to the 5th grade teacher for math, but the principal believes that you can challenge a kid by going deeper. I pointed out to him that that's what 5th grade math IS, 4th grade math, only deeper. Fell on deaf ears.

I would ask him for examples. "Can you please give me an example of "deeper" methods in fourth grade math?

Failing that, maybe the 4th grade teachers could start giving her 5th grade stuff.
Here, "deeper" meant doing reports on the lives of famous mathematicians after the normal math work was done. I told the school at the last meeting that if any such idea is ever introduced again, we'll leave the meeting and our next step will be immediately applying for a finding of academic hardship, to allow transferring to another school or district.

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