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Butterfly_Curlz · 06-07-2011, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ninja dog

Wow ---- thank you very much, JM.

I guess I just don't see it in her. She's always been able to concentrate well. Perhaps it's the older kids she's working with?

My guess is that they will change her school. I'm dismayed.

And.....I'm glad they didn't make such judgements when I was a kid. I was bored out of my MIND at school, and rarely followed the curriculum as planned. I'm sure they'd have drugged me senseless.

Although, come to think of it, back then, pretty much all of us kids drugged ourselves senseless..........

Lol. No problem & your very welcome. Not that it matters now but how did she end up in a class with older children in the first place?

Was it because she was doing so well in the first place that they advanced her? If so she may 'have been advanced for her age' but just not ready for that much of a step up or maybe shes just intimidated by being w/older children ( a childs personality{ introverted vs extroverted } really plays a role in their ability to adjust) . Either of which would result in a change in her behavior/academic performance.

Also, you state that she has 'always been able to concentrate well'. Is that outside of school as well as inside of school? Sometime kids concentration or lack thereof in school has more to do w/environmental/adjustment issues rather than something actually going on w/the child themselves...especially if they are able to sit down at home or elsewhere for that matter and stay on task or participate in organized activities.

If she truly is able to focus everywhere else & the lack of inattention is in one specific area (either outside of school but not in & vice versa) then they really ned to take a closer look at that one area and examine what is going on (like being distracted by other children at home or having to do school work in an area where theres a tv on,etc. or in school where theres maybe one child whos constantly interrupting others & its in turn distracting her).

We could go on and on but these are a few things to take into consideration as well.