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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 690901" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>In my experience public schools never taught this.</p><p></p><p>The kids that came from families who were verbal, more focused upon the news or culture--and at home--practiced the skills that would facilitate learning--could get by, even thrive. Those that did not have those early environments were kicked to the curb.</p><p></p><p>My own son was a combination to the two. Because of early developmental challenges--he was always a handful, highly distracted, anxious and hyper. But because we traveled, he learned languages, and he came to believe in his capacity to learn in some environments, his intellect flowered.</p><p></p><p>But his motivation did not. Not in school. There is a huge disconnect. He is interested. He knows he is very smart. He knows he can do the work. He is just afraid and anxious of the process, when it is within a formal academic context. </p><p></p><p>This is a kid that taught himself 3 foreign languages and for a decade has been reading scholarly books on linguistics and culture. How is it that he can have no confidence in succeeding in school?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 690901, member: 18958"] In my experience public schools never taught this. The kids that came from families who were verbal, more focused upon the news or culture--and at home--practiced the skills that would facilitate learning--could get by, even thrive. Those that did not have those early environments were kicked to the curb. My own son was a combination to the two. Because of early developmental challenges--he was always a handful, highly distracted, anxious and hyper. But because we traveled, he learned languages, and he came to believe in his capacity to learn in some environments, his intellect flowered. But his motivation did not. Not in school. There is a huge disconnect. He is interested. He knows he is very smart. He knows he can do the work. He is just afraid and anxious of the process, when it is within a formal academic context. This is a kid that taught himself 3 foreign languages and for a decade has been reading scholarly books on linguistics and culture. How is it that he can have no confidence in succeeding in school? [/QUOTE]
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