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Val, you just described me in college and my 9 year old daughter now!
She decided every other subject is so much more easier than writing (essays especially). She is so frustrated that she has to sit and think hard and come up with 'WOW' statements and use metaphors that she tries to find ways to bypass that.
Her recent antic was that she will draw a thinking-map instead of a book review. The teacher didn't praise her as mush as she usually does and my DD was so dissappointed!

Thanks sunny_mom and everyone else who's commented on what I said.

I've done a small informal survey of bright people I know, and almost all of them have told me that they had problems developing study skills after coasting through elementary. I know I did, and it's hardly surprising if you never had to work to do well.

I guess it just really stinks that the school system has become so rigid. Sometimes I wonder what schools would say if someone tried to force them to group kids on sports teams strictly by age, with no varsity or JV groups! Why is this so obvious and so okay with sports but not in other areas?

Val


Val

Great Sports Analogy. Now what about the funding that follow the athletic programs?
Smiles,
Trinity