Do teachers recognize the different gifts that are naturally arising in children?

Whilst I agree with much of what you say, I still wonder if there are teachers out there who recognize these naturally arising gifts. For sure the ultimate responsibility lies with the parents, yet when a child spends around 6 hours a day with a teacher, these gifts must become evident in one way or other? So within the established curriculum/system of teaching of any school is at all possible to teach a creative child for instance how to grasp what only logic can grasp?

Or vice versa? Many children who slip through the school system because they lacked "intelligence" often had awesome creative gifts that were not nurtured. Surely there must be a way?

Do you think it is the teachers or the system?

Ma'am, we have to understand that teachers are humans like us. They have personal lives, they have priorities, they have to earn a living for themselves and their families. Even at their most "regular" level, teachers are already doing superhuman stuff.

And there are those who really rise above the ordinary who deserve our utmost respects. But the thing is, kids are the parents' responsibility (I'm a parent myself and I'm doing my damdest for my kids). We can demand that teachers teach our kids the basics of language, science, and arithmetic but discovering what our kids are capable of and supporting them all the way to attain and exploit their potentials, well, only us parents are capable of it.

I have 2 kids at home, my elder daughter's teacher has 40 kids in the classroom. Who is more capable of looking out for my daughter? I am.

I take responsibility for my kids and how they will turn out as adults. Teachers nowadays can't actually hope to teach children of diverse abilities to achieve their potential, unless it's a one-on-one session for a particular talent, like that piano teacher teaching piano lessons to my daughter. Peace to all!

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Some do, some don't, it is the difference between good and bad teachers.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.