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<blockquote data-quote="confuzzled" data-source="post: 354864" data-attributes="member: 8831"><p>hi there....</p><p>we have seen the <em>exact</em> same thing with my daughter with all of the focus on standardized testing this spring....the pressure is ridiculous and has shot her anxiety into orbit.</p><p> </p><p>we too are trying to figure out a solution (other than just there is an end in sight, ours takes place the beginning of may, thank HEAVENS!).</p><p> </p><p>i can tell you, in our case that what we found is that the spEd kids are literally being hammered with "practice" since they fall under the genED teachers scoring and they are trying to get these kids to score very high. its the *only* focus of the spED right now....they often (actually, almost daily) spend the entire period writing essays and picking them apart--do you have three sentences in the first paragraph, do you have transition words, etc--they want them to follow a VERY specific format, and its almost unnatural in writing. </p><p> </p><p>my kid does specifically suffer from anxiety like yours, and has some motor difficulties to add insult to injury, but i'll even tell you that according to my super secret school spy <em>every </em>kid in the class has been pushed past their breaking point--they are ALL showing signs of the major stress from all of this 'practice".</p><p> </p><p>so i dont have a good answer for your daughter but i just wanted to let you know that if she's doing similar testing its crazy stress right now. i've stooped so low as to tell my daughter that the test is testing the <em>teachers</em> and not her...not that it made a difference for my daughter, but i cant come up with anything better. my heart breaks for our kids--i could care less if they bring down the standardized test scores for the genED teacher....to me, a test score is more important than your mental health?? who thinks like that??? </p><p> </p><p>oh, and my daughter tries to remember to breathe, lol <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="confuzzled, post: 354864, member: 8831"] hi there.... we have seen the [I]exact[/I] same thing with my daughter with all of the focus on standardized testing this spring....the pressure is ridiculous and has shot her anxiety into orbit. we too are trying to figure out a solution (other than just there is an end in sight, ours takes place the beginning of may, thank HEAVENS!). i can tell you, in our case that what we found is that the spEd kids are literally being hammered with "practice" since they fall under the genED teachers scoring and they are trying to get these kids to score very high. its the *only* focus of the spED right now....they often (actually, almost daily) spend the entire period writing essays and picking them apart--do you have three sentences in the first paragraph, do you have transition words, etc--they want them to follow a VERY specific format, and its almost unnatural in writing. my kid does specifically suffer from anxiety like yours, and has some motor difficulties to add insult to injury, but i'll even tell you that according to my super secret school spy [I]every [/I]kid in the class has been pushed past their breaking point--they are ALL showing signs of the major stress from all of this 'practice". so i dont have a good answer for your daughter but i just wanted to let you know that if she's doing similar testing its crazy stress right now. i've stooped so low as to tell my daughter that the test is testing the [I]teachers[/I] and not her...not that it made a difference for my daughter, but i cant come up with anything better. my heart breaks for our kids--i could care less if they bring down the standardized test scores for the genED teacher....to me, a test score is more important than your mental health?? who thinks like that??? oh, and my daughter tries to remember to breathe, lol :-) [/QUOTE]
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