Alright... I'll try to answer all of your questions and then some.
My difficult child is in 3rd grade.
Tonight he has 11 pages of work, 4 of which he has to read entire pages and answer a slew of questions about what he's read (about 10 questions per page read). And he, also, has 40 minutes of reading time he has to do.
Normally, he would get 2-3 pages a night (and 20 minutes of seperate reading). The teacher said he should only be spending a half hour on the worksheets.
My difficult child, flat out, refuses to do any work. He'd rather run away from the teachers, principal, etc... Do flips, cartwheels and run with chairs on his head.
We just had a PPT today. I barely said anything. My mind can no longer register anything. I cried when I realised nothing can and will be done until the school FINALLY does the evaluation they should have done forever ago. Maybe the school seeing me break down will change their outlook on things... I bet.
My son goes to an after school program from 3:30 to 6. Of course, he won't do any work there when he has the option to play the entire time (it's with the YMCA). They already have to restrain him from running out of the school (like today), so attempting to enforce him to do his homework is like attempting to enforce Bush to stop the war. Yeah...not happening.
We get home at 7 (after picking my difficult child up, going to mom-in-laws to eat dinner >my daughter's already there< and driving home). A half hour...even a FULL hour is reasonable time for my difficult child to do his work... 9 o'clock is bedtime, though. And that's that.
The school complains my difficult child is tired in school and I should have him get more sleep. Ha!
My difficult child will sit with me and do his homework neatly and perfectly (most of the time).
My difficult child will NOT sit in another room and get his homework done.
My difficult child's teacher neglects to check his bag and is constantly badgering me on why she hasn't gotten any of his past assignments (or she just sends the same page home, twice).
My difficult child already has had his desk moved about 3 times, so far. He now sits right against the teacher's desk, away from all of the other children. It seems to be working like a charm...
My difficult child's class has 24 kids in it.
They have no one-on-one resources, nor smaller classes.
In my opinion, this school has too much ego to admit they cannot handle my child.
It kills me that me, his MOTHER, has had to come to terms that I can't properly care for him in some of the states he gets in, yet, the school...well, I've listed the way they work.