They sound incompetent.
If your kid's contemporaries are still identifying shapes and counting to five at three, the whole lot of them are fucking 'special needs'. My daughter's two and is way beyond that shit already, for Christ's sake.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 15:11, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

different kids learn at different speeds
my little sister is six and not great with her taking away. Yet she is pretty much one of the cleverest children I've met
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 15:14, Reply)

Different kids do indeed learn at different speeds
but some are also THICK (not your sister, obv.). This is practically heretical to say in this day and age but fuck it: some people are just fucking dim. Not everyone has ADHD, dyslexia, fucking HSBC or whatever.

Little bastards.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 15:20, Reply)

Now that is true
and it's not just a case about me being partial- one of my sisters is very nonacademic and the family realise that and let her do her own thing.

The ADHD thing pisses me off. If your child has a genuine problem then mainstream education isn't going to help them. If they don't, then stop shovelling coke and sweets down their neck, set some rules and stop letting them make teachers lives a misery
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 15:22, Reply)

Quite right
a lot of these syndromes are made up crap to excuse a poor home upbringing and justify naughtiness.

People don't want to take responsibility for their kids' actions.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Tue 19 Oct 2010, 15:26, Reply)

I have HSBC
how dare you be so insensitive
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 15:38, Reply)

This^
My daughter can write her name and she is 3 and called Elizabeth. I can remember being able to read, write and count long before starting school.

Thicket kids these days, eh?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 15:15, Reply)

that's my sister's name and she can't spell it

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 15:43, Reply)