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Originally Posted by kirklancaster

This is weird (don't want to mention synchronicity ) but I was exactly the same at school - not really challenged and bored out of my skull. I too never inputted what i should have as a result, and regret it to this day.

The worst thing is that I can see it already happening with my daughter. She is FIVE! She's one of the youngest in the class but ahead with everything, she's started doing maths work for next year and she can read and write pretty much anything. Her spelling is hilarious but with reading, she is literate, the "read with parent" books they're giving aren't teaching her anything because she can pick up a new one and read it cover to cover without help. It sounds like bragging but I'm actually really scared for her... she's already talking about being bored during lessons because she "already knows it" and comes home saying that she "didn't learn anything", but keeps getting "amber warnings" on their stupid traffic light system because she talks to and distracts others who are not ahead, and once for sitting writing "kick me!" signs during a lesson where they were sitting around learning "what sounds these letters make". In that case it probably didn't help that I laughed when the teacher told me .

Of course I am biased but, she is genuinely clever and very funny, and she still loves to learn but I can already see that starting to lessen as she loses interest. I genuinely remember how bored and frustrated I was - especially at primary school - and it had a knock on effect that if I'm being honest is STILL with me. What makes it worse is that at least when I was there, they divided us up into ability groups in the class and we did different things. From what I've heard, they don't like to do that any more for fear of some children "feeling bad". Which I do understand, but what a cop-out for the kids who could be doing more challenging work.

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

ps. please go back to your original avatar, I think that shit between us is over and I apologise for saying it - I didn't really mean it anyway T.S.

Haha, I think I will change it... because I did quite like the Toy Soldiers picture that came up on that "google your username" thread.