[Oz-gifted] Update on L

[Amanda Baynham]

> She's possibly in her early 30s, so not straight out
> of Uni.  

J's teacher i kindy was in her late 50's and had been
teaching for over 35years and made the same comment to
me.... 


> a)  High intelligence is obscured somewhat when a
> student has a NESB 
> -- and that's 90% of our school, so he would stand
> out more as a 
> result

 this was a HUGE factor in J's situation.....he was
the only child in the kindy classes that had english
as a first language ....and one of only about 10 in
the entire school...

> While you are
> recovering, he does 
> something else and you wonder whether there is a
> village idiot in the 
> family tree somewhere...

yes...like my son who yesterday asked where what the
*laundry room * was .... hang on...this is a 10year
old boy who couldnt figure out which room in the house
is the laundry ROFL


in relation to the other part tho... i found it was
often a teachers inabilty to identify *different*
children that made it uncommon.... J's teachers always
dismissed *bright children* in their classes as
*people from those countries always push their kids
and do lots of extra teaching so its not that they are
bright but because they ar pushed after school*.... so
they only identified my son because 1) he was *white*
and australian... and 2) i SWORE that i did NO extra
teaching at home at all...

funnnily enough after i got J assessed one of the
teachers ( who retired at the end of the year) got
about 20 of the other k-2 kids assessed because she
felt they had been dismissed as *pushed* and they were
actually *gifted*....


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