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

234 replies

ImNotInterestedInYourKids · 28/09/2007 09:51

  1. being g and t for reading is odd

  1. kdis mum went on adn on about it

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

hooray

OP posts:
OrmIrian · 28/09/2007 13:28

??

niceglasses · 28/09/2007 13:29

IMHO - your'e talking the most sense here girl!

Lorayn · 28/09/2007 13:36

what is flot???

codswallop · 28/09/2007 13:37

i wa laughing at the Mum
very ncie
btu for her OWN reasons rather ushy abotu education

ruty · 28/09/2007 13:37

Sorry but PMSL at Boco and Rosa.

codswallop · 28/09/2007 13:39

ye si missed thta
vair good boco
,

Boco · 28/09/2007 13:47

Excuse me, but Twig gave me my pass about 2 weeks ago - i am no longer a newbie thankyouverymuch.

RosaLuxembourg · 28/09/2007 13:48

Blimey Fircone, you are not still on about that reading thread are you? For the record, the OP on that thread asked other people to give their experience of the reading levels that their dc started reception at. They did so. You, for whatever reason, decided you did not believe that many of these posters were telling the truth and posted an extremely insulting and offensive message to that effect. There was nothing tentative about what you said, it was just plain rude.
Nobody was deliberately boasting on that thread, we were trying to help the OP put her daughter's reading ability in context.

Threadworm · 28/09/2007 13:49

How long do you have to be here before you stop being a noob?

pagwatch · 28/09/2007 13:49

Do they give out passes?
Do I have to apply?
aww please...

codswallop · 28/09/2007 13:50

NOB OR A NEWBIE?
newbie abotu three years

Threadworm · 28/09/2007 13:51

Meant newbie. I don't aspire ever to stop being a nob.

Bloody hell, three years. Do G&T mnetters get to skip ahead?

tortoiseSHELL · 28/09/2007 13:52

G&T Mnetters have to do an extra year of purgatory.

Boco · 28/09/2007 13:53

Are you calling me a nob and a newbie cod? and you've already called me a nonce - that's a hatrick of abuse.

i have non-newbie documentation.

OrmIrian · 28/09/2007 13:54

3 years!

Can't we get a green 'N' plate after 2?

Twiglett · 28/09/2007 17:27

What is this pass of which you speak Boco?

fircone · 28/09/2007 17:46

Okay, RosaL:

"DS was reading fluently by the beginning of reception. His teacher, in an affluent SW London suburb, said she had 'never seen anything like it'"

"I was thrilled when the teacher asked all the children what their favourite colour was and all the girls said 'pink' and dd said 'I like sparkling magical lilac. And sometimes maybe violet'"

Go figure.

RosaLuxembourg · 28/09/2007 18:25

Dear me, Fircone, well perhaps those remarks are a little on the PFB side though they are not TYPICAL of the posts on that rather long thread, but I still can't see why you needed to accuse those who posted about their children of being liars.
In any case, I imagine the context of the first post was that the poster was trying to reassure the OP that her daughter was NOT untypical in not being able to read before starting reception. She was pointing out that it is being able to read which is untypical.
I am really not getting why it bothers you so much.

minorityrules · 28/09/2007 18:26

gifted and talented just seems (to me) to be a label to placate parents, it means nothing

it wasn't around for my eldest but she was a quick to learn reading, quick to grasp concepts , very good at maths and has a memory of an elephant. I guess, she would have been labelled G/T. she wasn't, she is just a bright child that is academic and enjoyed school. She got 10 A*'s in her GCSE's and 4 A's in A level. No matter how much learning or labelling, she can't get higher.She was matched in her results by kids that took longer to get started and kids that worked their socks off. Does it matter how they get the results by having a label???

With reading, kids do get it at different levels. My son didn't learn to read until year 2. by year 6 he was reading at 16 year old level, you can;t be G/T at reading

I don't believe this labelling is good for anyone and wish it would go away, only parents care if little johnny is reading tolkien wen his classmates are reading about biff and the rest

It comes across as bragging sometimes

REALchoice · 28/09/2007 18:41

At our secondary we have 200 yr7s, so apparently 20 are G&T.

According to the CATs we have only six who have the potential to get handful of grade A/A*s in GCSE

Obviously getting an A at GCSE is not especially gifted in most settings
But if these children are in mixed ability classes where the average is below a GCSE C, then if the G&T Schemes force/encourage teachers to take account of these six children, and make special provision for them in their lessons, so that in 5 yrs time they do get the As they are capable of; rather than being allowed to slip ... then I'm all for G&T Policy.

codswallop · 28/09/2007 18:42

fircoen
your ds is camp not g and t

codswallop · 28/09/2007 18:43

dd
ok sh e is pretentious

Tamum · 28/09/2007 18:45

cod, I think she's quoting from another thread...

fircone · 28/09/2007 19:49

No, no - it wasn't MY ds and dd!! Those were quotes from the(very modest and helpful) people on the reception readers thread.

Wow - Cod spoke to me!! I'll go and tell dh.

singersgirl · 28/09/2007 20:42

I'm not going to take umbrage at the fact that Fircone has singled out my post on ImaginaryFriend's thread; I can see that it might sound boastful, though that certainly wasn't my intention. As RosaLuxembourg pointed out, I was trying (however cack-handedly) to say that 'real' early reading doesn't seem to be as common as someone might think from reading Mumsnet. I was, with hindsight clumsily, trying to reassure the OP that her DD sounded as if she was doing really well.

I also, in the same post, said that DS1 wasn't reading at all at the start of reception and that lots of other children were reading brilliantly by Y1.

I posted later to say that I thought IF's daughter was doing really well for this stage of Reception - and for the record certainly far better than my own DS1.

And my early reader is not my PFB. And his teacher had only been teaching 6 years, so that's only 180 children, rather than 25 years of them.

And, for the record, in support of some other posters on this thread, I don't think it's that unusual for other people to comment about your child to you; certainly it's happened to me about lots of things - some good and some bad. DS2's reading was one of those things, as was his weeing in the sandpit in Reception.

Oh, perhaps I have taken umbrage...