The error is usually half the smallest marking so 1/2 oz.

Here if you get tested you have to stay home until you get a negative result - but you can't self test so it is more controlled. But it is rarely longer than 24 hours. It will probably resolve itself before you get the results. I have a terrible asthmatic cough in winter and people looked at me badly enough before Covid.

Or he got a cold just before he went to the camp? Colds are tricky. We legally have to mask in shops etc. The kids don't have to at school. Ds14 carries one but since there hasn't actually been a case in the South Island for over a year I am not that concerned.

Where I am there are no such things. So you calling it a school confused me.

See most minimum wage jobs they expect you to clean if there is any down time. In my experience the less they are paying the more they want their pound of flesh.

We don"t remember a lot from when we are kids but we are shaped by it.

I ordered something from Memoria press last year. It took 2 months to transfer from domestic in to international out at the same airport.

I can't imagine reading the Water Babies to a kid under 7 either.

Is it likely she is just writing the answer on tests and not showing any working?

We don't do the 2 step thing you do so that probably explains this. Entrance to many selective courses us based on first year university results (though vet seems to have just changed to first semester). You are simply not going to get the grades required in first year without really solid high school results. Here get is a 5 year course so it must end up being 8? Years there.

Generally when six year olds test the teachers read the questions out loud (or the computer does). This would actually explain a lot of staring and seemingly random behaviour as it can seem painfully slow for any child in about the top 25%. Laughing may at the questions. On the other hand while all the behaviours you have mentioned seem trivial the teacher may be trying to draw your attention to an underlying concern rather than being concerned about each incident. Set up a meeting with the teacher and in the meantime talk to her about shutting doors, washing hands and keeping masks on. Having not been in school before she may just need more explicit instructions. ETA. Teachers are pretty busy so the probably didn't contact you the first, second or third time they talked to your daughter about it. Also it is possible it is the teacher that is the problem. I homeschool one of my kids to protect him from teachers who don't understand ASD or have time to help.

I never heard of gifted until I had kids in my late 30's. It just wasn't a thing in rural schools in NZ in the 1970's. I don't know whether I would test gifted but if I did I would probably be 2e. But I have 2 HG+ kids and their father and I have a lot in common intellectually so I assume I contributed something to the mix. I have an honours degree which puts me in the top 1/3 of my university class and at the time only the top 1/3 or do went to university. I remember find some parts of school way too easy and overwhelmingly shallow but I did also have areas of challenge. I have a gifted/ASD kid and I see myself in him.

I don't think anyone thinks that. Where I live it is fine to have a kid who is gifted in sports and encourage them and even boast but completely unacceptable to have a child that excells academically.

I don't know anyone who has died of covid. But then I don't know anyone whose baby died of a cot and I still too precautions. For that matter I don't know anyone who has died of measles, influensa or lung cancer. That doesn't mean it is OK to smoke, not get vaccinated or ignore chest infections. I do know someone who died of AIDS back in the early 90's but that doesn't mean we should all focus on AIDS.

I had surgically induced menopause in my mid 40's and was recent prescribed it for the same reason along with a spiel that they were more or less sure it wouldn't increase my breast cancer risk (the reason for ovary removal). The prescription has been sitting in my bag unfilled for 2 months because I can't get up the nerve.

I don't think it is unreasonable to expecr a class to be what it says. Sure there can be some flex but a ceramics class needs to teach ceramics, a history of film needs to teach history of film and a swimming class should teach swimming. I have never heard of anyone enrolling in a swimming class then being told we have decided to teach the history of water sports instead - have you?

I am in NZ and ds 12 and ds14 had their first dose last week. Exercise wasn't mentioned. No one said anything when I had mine either.

But wouldn't each school teach different things on any given week or day using different resources?

Well we shut down the whole country for one case so that seems quite reasonable.

Yes I do. If I know that doing or something will cause a major problem and I keep doing it then I really should learn from experience. This doesn't apply if it is an essential thing your are asking them to do or doing (putting on a seatbelt etc).

Yes. He says the correct level is getting about 70% right. The other 30% might take a second or third or more try.

It was expected and you could. Probably a lot of the kids couldn't and didn't though.

5.5 hours is more than the kids here do at school. They do 4.5 hours when you take the 1.5 hours outside play at morning tea and lunch and it jumps up to about 5.25 at high school. We do have a 40 week years but there are probably a week of public holidays and teacher only days so 39 is probably more accurate. I would be inclined to have 2 hours quiet time a day with audio books and a hard copy book to match and count that as reading plus an hour outside play a day and call it PE. That would leave you with 2.5 hours to do the rest.

Me too. I can function on none for a day of two and four for a week. I have functioned for the past four years on four hours sleep most nights. But I am not function well under the surface. I struggle to make complex decisions and I forget appointments.

Yeah here it is 2 weeks for the entire household and the infected kid and his family would me moved to a quarantine facility.