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Help!! easy child may be becoming difficult child
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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 150820" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Paula, you're absoltely right. Setting up an 8 yo to be bored silly is just asking him to act goofy and immature. Penalizing him for it is unacceptable.</p><p></p><p>I wonder...if the school's policy is "no child left behind", can you use that argument in Boo's favour? It's evident that he is being left behind as a result of this policy. If he's capable of doing work that far above grade level, then not giving him the challenge is leaving him behind.</p><p></p><p>When I was Boo's age, I was in a similar boat. I was lucky enough to be in a tiny school with pretty flexible policies. Instead of moving me to a higher grade, my teacher simply sent me to the "big kids" classroom a couple of days a week, to sit in on their classes and do their work. Other days she would send me down the hall to pick up assignments etc. which I would do in my classroom. The big kids treated me like their little pet, I was no longer bored, and I stopped being such a little PITA in class.</p><p></p><p>I don't know how open your SD is to this sort of idea, but it's not fair to your son that his educational needs are not being met because the school's focus is on the children on the other end of the bell curve. They need to accommodate EVERYONE.</p><p></p><p>Just my $0.02,</p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 150820, member: 3907"] Paula, you're absoltely right. Setting up an 8 yo to be bored silly is just asking him to act goofy and immature. Penalizing him for it is unacceptable. I wonder...if the school's policy is "no child left behind", can you use that argument in Boo's favour? It's evident that he is being left behind as a result of this policy. If he's capable of doing work that far above grade level, then not giving him the challenge is leaving him behind. When I was Boo's age, I was in a similar boat. I was lucky enough to be in a tiny school with pretty flexible policies. Instead of moving me to a higher grade, my teacher simply sent me to the "big kids" classroom a couple of days a week, to sit in on their classes and do their work. Other days she would send me down the hall to pick up assignments etc. which I would do in my classroom. The big kids treated me like their little pet, I was no longer bored, and I stopped being such a little PITA in class. I don't know how open your SD is to this sort of idea, but it's not fair to your son that his educational needs are not being met because the school's focus is on the children on the other end of the bell curve. They need to accommodate EVERYONE. Just my $0.02, Trinity [/QUOTE]
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