hahaha the G and t "reader"(wtf???) is now way behind

[ImNotInterestedInYourKids]

1. being g and t for reading is odd

2. kdis mum went on adn on about it

3. kid now in year 5 and is still on level 10

hooray

Cod/Imnotinterestedinyourkids you clearly are interested as you frequently post on this board. Maybe you have a slight obsession with gifted kids. I think it is worth questioning your motives especially as you seem to take so much delight in a child who has clearly made little progress since being in school.

I'm with cod

she sounds like an arse

I would be larfing my feckin' socks off .. internally

oh he has made loads of progress
fgs

is juts lazy bugger

But she's laughing at the child not the parent which is cruel and v.sad that she sees this issue as something to laugh about

the child is NORMAL

the parent sounds, like many parents nowadays, competitive and smug

shadenfreude is acceptable

that's because its bloody funny singingmum

I think she is laughing at the mother not the child.
Mother went on about how special her child was and it has turned out that he/she isnt after all.

????? On what basis are you all passing judgement? You only have Cod's version of events.

Ignore that .. I've asked for it to be deleted and apologise .. I am having a rather difficult week

i don't think cod is laughing at the child at all, tbh there is nothing worse than a smug mother going on and on about her 'g&t' child.

i feel sorry for the child in question, he obviously hasn't lived up to his mums expectations - how sad is that for him?

Yes quite, she must be furious at him for letting her down and making her look like an idiot.
I wonder how he is being made to pay for his disappointing reading. I guess, it will be the schools fault.

wow truly all threads on G+T go to shit!!!!!!

I can't bear the 'G&T' culture - I hate it already when people ask what reading level ds1 is at, or what maths group, or what page in his violin book - I just mumble 'no idea' or 'can't remember' because you can't win - if their child is ahead then at best they comfort themselves that at least they're ahead of my ds, at worst they gloat that their child is not so good. If ds1 is ahead then they badger the teacher for extra work etc, or stress at their children that they're not working hard enough.

They all go at different rates. Am so glad ds1 has finished 'reading levels' and reads what he likes now, it's so much less competitive than a number on the back of the book.

I think that it is fairly obvious that cod isn't lauging at the child, but at hte mother. And also at the system that lebels children at a farcically young age.

Abd yes some kids really are very clever, but they are also very rare.

And all those blaming the school for not making sure the child made progress should remember that children really do have individual learning curves. And while a small number of children go on to great things, many, many more level out at a 'normal' point on the curve.

And in the end 'Pride Goeth before a Fall'. If the parent hadn't bragged, cod wouldn't have known

thanks I now know why I have no friends elsbells
God forbid I discuss my son with anyone for fear of being smug
Lcukily I've studiously ignored that and as a result that's why I'm friendless I presume.
Either that or no makeup on the school run

Exactly mb! Telling cod won't have helped her child's reading at all, but may have dented her pride somewhat!

piffle - there's 'discussing' and then there's 'being smug' and 'bragging' and 'comparing'. Nothing wrong with discussing a child imo - you can generally tell the difference!

But piffle you know that there is real discussion, and bragging.

Good manners and bad.

There are times when there is a need for help, and a time when people are just saying ' Lookie at my kid, s/he is smarter than yours'.

IME the latter happens most often when the kid isn't really that exceptional at all.

OOOk ratteling good cross post ther TS!

mb!

I too was a child who didn't live up to expectations - but I had always know what my limits were IYKWIM.
I was waaaay ahead in maths and english in my early years and it was pretty troublesome.
Two incidents stand out. Being taken, mid lesson, up to a class two years ahead to select my reading book - the class my sister was in . Yes she still hates me - and BOTH the classes hated me, mine and hers .
And then my best friend Jane asked me to help her with her maths because I was finished and the Teacher made me stand on the desk and told all the class " Well everyone, here thinks she is sooo much better than you" I was about 8 years old.

By 11 I was the same as everyone else and life was much happier.
But if it makes sense _ ididn't stop trying or anything. I had just got the concepts early and the more complicated the processing became the harder I found it.
Just average now.

And , to confirm the fact that reading can be a "trick" rather than an indication of IQ, my profoundly ASD son can read really well but often cannot understand the concepts he is reading about. aged 10 he still doesn't really get verbal past tense, speaks in the thoird person and still doesn't 'get' death.

Don't really know what any of that is relevent too - but cleatly needed to share