My challenging teen has gone from `needing to be booted from college` to `needs to be stretched and challenged, should not be working at level she is`.
There is a god! :bounce:
Venusxxx
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Pretty much the trouble we were having with ours. She is hopelessly disorganised, and as a result forgot some English coursework today. She quickly submitted some work there and then, and they`ve realised she is under-challenged as a result, want her to skip GCSE level, and are thinking of putting her straight into AS level instead!
Yes I`m blowing the proud mum horn! I hope this encourages her to pull her socks up!
Venusxxx
Yes I`m blowing the proud mum horn! I hope this encourages her to pull her socks up!
Venusxxx
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Yes I`m blowing the proud mum horn! I hope this encourages her to pull her socks up!
Venusxxx
It's so nice when something good comes after all the worry they cause you. It's just amazing that they (the teachers) can make such a radical decision based on one piece of work. Makes you wonder why they didn't spot it in the past.
Our's always told us she was bored but the teachers wouldn't do anything about it.
Good for you (and her).
Excellent news Venus and Mars! 
I wonder how many other children have wrongly been downgraded or dismissed for being 'more intelligent', just because they appear not to fit in with the 'normalized' ideal teachers or society expects. It's the mavericks who challenge the accepted norms that often go on to produce exceptional and imaginative work and enrich our society.
LC
I wonder how many other children have wrongly been downgraded or dismissed for being 'more intelligent', just because they appear not to fit in with the 'normalized' ideal teachers or society expects. It's the mavericks who challenge the accepted norms that often go on to produce exceptional and imaginative work and enrich our society.
LC
Thanks LC. She`s certainly been a trial. One of her problems was that she didn`t fit in well with the school system, and I had to remove her to home tutor her. I didn`t try to get her through her GSCE`s, as we had a lot of other issues to deal with, and after we came to the decision for her to do them a year late, she found that she was put in classes alongside kids who`d failed thier GCSE`s, she often complained that the tutors seemed to `talk down` to such students. She`d already had an issue where she submitted a piece of work she`d written at home as opposed to college, and was accused of it not being her work, so it`s done the power of good for her tutor to have witnessed her knock something up in front of him.
Venusxxx
Venusxxx
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Thanks LC. She`s certainly been a trial. One of her problems was that she didn`t fit in well with the school system, and I had to remove her to home tutor her. I didn`t try to get her through her GSCE`s, as we had a lot of other issues to deal with, and after we came to the decision for her to do them a year late, she found that she was put in classes alongside kids who`d failed thier GCSE`s, she often complained that the tutors seemed to `talk down` to such students. She`d already had an issue where she submitted a piece of work she`d written at home as opposed to college, and was accused of it not being her work, so it`s done the power of good for her tutor to have witnessed her knock something up in front of him.
Venusxxx
Indeed, isn't is strange how when you are place in a one context you are view as being a liar becasue you produce outstanding work, yet in another context such work is given a good reception. Seems like you are judged for the context you are in, either working class, low paid, undereducated. I have been all three and I was regarded as being a low achiever in the primary school I went too (I was in th "D" class) dunno why!!!!! I did the 11 + and I was promoted instantly to the "A" class in my secondary school! Surely there must have been a wrong assessment in the first place when they placed me in the primary school!
Since then I have gone on to to university and I have a first class degree and a postgraduate qualification! Sure some mistake by some judemental idiots when I was younger has marred my perception of myself! It took me a few years of self educating and making friends with Cambridge graduates to realise I was an intelligent person after all. If you don't nuture a child in the right way a lot of damage can be done. Teachers have a responsibility to recognise the individual in children. At least I hope so!
LC
