My y4 ds has been awarded a first from Oxford - is this good?

[PollyParanoia]

My ds's teacher says his end of term homework is probably doctoral thesis level and that we should possibly be thinking about submitting for the Nobel prize. Does anyone know if this is unusual? Is he doing well? He seems a bright little thing, but I'm not sure what these levels know.

DD has also identified a new sub species of human:

Parentus Smuggeratus Arseholeus

Her thesis shows they hang out in coffee shops and do regular Facebook updates on their children's intelligence and reports and talk a sub language known as "ORT levels" which impairs their ability to interact with the rest of the human race.

Great post OP. It always appears to be those with DCs getting the best grades that don't seem to understand how good they are. Everybody with average understands very well which leads me to think one of two things. Either: the child is born from parents who are uninterested or thick or the parent is secretly gloating. But then I may be just a cynic.

No, it's not good as such. It's OK though so don't worry too much. There's still a few years to catch up. Could you afford a tutor?

This thread has cheered me up no end today

It's nothing special, I'm afraid. They've dumbed education down so much that today's double first is yesterday's CSE.

I love this thread. My dd will be entering Reception without being able to read or write any letter that isn't backwards. Her drawings of monkeys and handbags are genius though.

ds's report says he shows natural leadership potential - I suspected as much but any ideas on how to to encourage him? Would it be better to do playdates with the passive and the shy kids in his class or should i give him a chance to test his skills on the naughty ones?

TIA

I would get him an internship at the Whitehouse.

(It's a nightclub).

at your school recognising their abilities. My two are Bright but Lazy. They're obviously PhD material - we've always known that, it's quite obvious - but none of their teachers have realised their potential. And to make matters worse, DD2 is clearly so bright that she's bored in class and misbehaving, but even when she burned down the school bike sheds nobody accepted that she's just not being stretched enough.

Our school has a rack for the more able pupils to be stretched on.

Mine's won a Fulbright and a Rhodes
She writes financial software codes
But that's a challenge she's outgrown
How many yachts can one dd (Y2) own
Some say that I'm a pompous creep
Somehow I don't lose that much sleep
Why bother with false modesty
Harvard's the perfect place for she

(with apologies to Legally Blonde The Musical)

Too right, PollyP (re apparent lack of Googling skills, SIGH).

My DD also got a 1st Cambridge but I'm a bit fuzzy on these levels, isn't that not as good as a 3rd because her Yr1 teacher keeps saying that to achieve a 3 at KS2 is pretty good and she's only got this one thing . Can you tell me does the teacher really know what she's saying, clearly she's not challenging DD enough, should i get a tutor?

Yes! absolutely get a tutor! teachers have no idea what they are doing and the only way forward is to make the DD do more work after school (which I know you are not pushing her to do, she would choose to spend her free time like this and you are facilitating her natural interests.

Are you sure he's being pushed enough? It's so easy for clever childre to just coast - or even be used to help other children.

Could he be Indigo?

So true, seeker - my DCs have just been coasting along in their eco-friendly nuclear-fission-powered car, built by them, all the way to the ceremony in which they will be receiving their Nobel Prize for physics, in fact. I will be making sure they study their spellings along the way, though.

Tuppenyrice one of the competitive mums actually told me their little one got an 11 on their AGPAR.

LovesThisThreadTiggaxx

I've just discovered this thread rather late but I just had to make a comment because I think it's the funniest one I've seen.

[hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin]

And by the way, have anybody elses children been crowned Kings and Queens of all Universities in all the world ???? (In Reception I mean, obviously you expect that by Year One)

Thank you so much everyone for cheering me up on this wet Monday morning! My three DSs are of course also total geniuses so it is great to find some like-minded and confused parents with whom we can all share tips on how to cope with our children's brilliance. The two cats are also far brighter than their peers, although not university material just yet but we're working on that. Shame about the two parents... thick as planks we are.

Better go, DS3 has smeared weetabix all over legs. He must have been too busy thinking about man's modern existentialist dilemma to notice what he was doing, or something like that.

Fab!!! Really made me laugh!!

WideAwakeMum - why is this thread not nice? Because we are poking actually quite gentle fun at people who stealth boast? Where in the MN rule book does it say we always have to be deadly serious about primary education?

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