I,ve changed my name for this as I think one of my ds friends mums comes here.
Phewww..don't know were to start. I could really do with some avice and encouragement..I've had a really awful night , tossed and turned, I haven;t eaten since midday yesterday..I can't believe how strongly this has affected me.
Basically, my ds is 13 and in yr8. He is in a private school...He was awarded a scholarship after coming top in the entrence exam out of 250 kids sitting it. He scored in the top 2% nationally in his CATS and his main subject is maths.
I hope this doesn't sound like bragging cos its really not. He is awful at French, Is also underachiving in a a lot of subjects..as he is quite lazy and dis organized.
Anyway the one subject he never underachieves in is Maths..He is top of the yr in every single test he has been given. He doesn't even have to revise..it just comes natrually.
He is also the only pupil in his yr to get a gold in the maths challenge last yr.
Anyway it is the team maths challenge on Monday...schools throughout the country are meeting at universities to take part.
each school makes a team...2 from yr 8 and 2 from yr 9.
I knew about this a while ago as i looked it up on the site... Ds has been looking forward to it. we obviosly assumed he would be in it.
I think you can see were this is going.
Yesterday we found out another boy and girl from his yr have been picked.#
Ds is devestated...and so am I. Neither of these 2 have ever beaten ds in an maths evam....He always scores between 96 and 99%.
HE was the only one to get gold last yr!!!!
I read a thread on here a while ago about piffles son and this is similar...He is saying to me...Why should I bother any more?
Iam so angry...this is the subject he is passionate about and this teacher has ruined it for him.
I called the school and spoke to head of maths.
She told me it was the set 1 s teachers job to jive two names for the challenge and she would question her today aboyt her reasons.
Pheww can't post anymore right now...will post more later. Thanks for listening.