Can a freshman take individual IB classes?

PVmusicmom
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:45:55 +0000

Olymom:


I am going to respectfully ask that you come back to this thread in six months and re-read what has been shared and what you have posted. TYPING IN CAPS IS LIKE SHOUTING IN SOMEONE’S FACE.

Olymom – I do not think I have to wait for “SIX MONTHS” to see what your posts here meant. Your posts will speak for themselves without anyone’s personal interpretation. So here is yours.

Olymom:


I was accelerated one year and I managed.

With our own S, we supported him as he worked two years ahead in math

I was speaking from my experience, both as a parent and as an accelerated student myself.

It was easy to “PUSH” a young talent too hard too fast. Too many young throughbreds end up as Alpo because they got galloped too hard too young.

Be careful about wanting your ego fed by “PUSHING” her to graduate at 15 or other silliness.

Please do not hurdle her through high school and “PUSH” her into college just because she can handle the academic work

I have this mental picture of a really bright girl being launched into advanced math/science “BY” her immensely proud ”PARENT” “WITHOUT EITHER PARTY REALLY THINKING” through all the parts of high school life.

Your talk was not to some other parents who have math accelerated kids. Rather, in your posts, “her or she” was my D. PUSH, PUSH, …, PUSH….WITHOUT REAL THINKING. To you, this girl is PUSHED by PARENTS, WITHOUT THINKING. AND, you said, you are speaking from your experience !!! Wow, good! You are saying it’s only by your imagination. So you had been PUSHED by your mom. Ouch, you must had been terrified by your mom. You had had no life. Even though your acceleration was ONLY by “ONE” year, it was too difficult one for you, you really had suffered too much as young. I am so sorry to hear that.

But wait,… our school has put tons of many kids into, “TWO” years of acceleration track, and they do so well without suffering like you. With many peers in TWO years of acceleration track, none of kids who are in just only “ONE” year acceleration track would say they are sufferring like you. In fact, junior kids in my D’s AP Calculus BC class currently are kids who have been on the track of “two” years of acceleration ( and seniors in one year acceleration track). My D has been with them for three years by now.

Clearly you do not have an authority to speak out such way, you vs. your mom, is, my D vs. her mom. You have no understanding of someone like my D who can learn “naturally” and get accelerated by several years. So, although no one can stop you here, if you say more and more, it’s like you are screaming louder and louder, how painful you were to be PUSHED by your mom to accelerate by just 1 year. You said you would SHOUT IN SOMEONE’S FACE, and here, sorry, someone has to be your mom.