Our ds is 7, and after reading threads on here & according to friends of ours who are experienced teachers, we've come to the conclusion that he probably is gifted. However, he messes around at school, often refuses point-blank to do work, lacks confidence in his abilities and says that he doesn't want to be seen as clever as he'll be teased & have no friends . He got 2 Level 3's in his SATs & a 'could do better' report, which we really found quite depressing, as it majored on his poor behaviour and lack of conformity rather than on his talents. He goes to a state primary with a lot of middle-class families but also some children from quite deprived backgrounds, and problems with naughty boys do seem to occur throughout the school. He is great with adults on a one-to-one basis and loved his teacher last year, but he finds it harder to relate to his peers and is quite immature socially in some ways. How do we help him & turn around his hatred of school into something positive??? (And we're not going to move him into the private sector, even if we could afford it).
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overthehill · 23/07/2006 23:25
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