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<blockquote data-quote="momslove" data-source="post: 349569" data-attributes="member: 2181"><p>Yes, difficult child is currently taking 3 online courses. Two courses now, actually, because he has already completed one course and passed the EOI test. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smug.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smug:" title="smug :smug:" data-shortname=":smug:" /> This is something they have yet to acknowledge, at least to me. Four hours a day are dedicated to his online courses, and he is (supposed to be) in the regular classroom for the remainder of his courses. Alternative (night school) is done using the online courses, as well. We are told ad nauseum that the alternative kids do 20 lessons a night, and most of them complete them within an hour. By this standard, they feel it is perfectly acceptable to expect difficult child to do 40, 60, or more lessons per day, since he spends 4 hours a day on his online courses. husband and I do not find that to be an acceptable expectation at all, which we have had to remind them of constantly. Some of the kids are in Alternative due to disciplinary issues, but others are there because they want to graduate <u>ahead of schedule</u>. difficult child has been skipped ahead two grade levels, and we have made it perfectly clear that he is NOT to accelerated ahead again because (if he stays on track) he will be graduating high school at 16 (almost 17) years old. </p><p></p><p>husband and I have told them many times, over the phone and in meetings at the school, that we felt 20 lessons a day should be the goal. We said that if he were to do less than that, he should and would do them at home, so that he would have his daily 20 completed. They 'agreed' to what we suggested, but they didn't hear what we said at all. They are still of the opinion difficult child should do 40, 60 or more lessons per day at school, and ALSO do 20 at home. The principal likes to talk about how their child has homework, which takes them 3-4 hours to complete, every single day of the school week... as if to illustrate that doing homework every night was simply a part of being in school. (Ummm... wrong. It is not. NONE of my kids (easy child or difficult child) has ever had nightly homework to do.) </p><p></p><p>I fully intend to have it written into his IEP that his daily goal (for online lessons done either at home or at school) is set at no more than 20. And to be honest, they are lucky I'm willing to consider that fair... when I was in high school, it was unusual for me to have even 2 assignments per class, per day. I guess that's just not enough nowadays...</p><p></p><p>I have long suspected that they are trying to get difficult child out the door and out of their hair as quickly as they possibly can. I don't believe he's as far behind as they say he is. Meaning, not to the point where he is at risk of failure and having to repeat the year. But if their goal is to get him graduated well ahead of schedule? Yeah, he'd definitely be behind on that goal.</p><p></p><p>I hate dealing with this ****. I don't know about the kiddos, but MOM is sooooooooooo ready for summer break!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="momslove, post: 349569, member: 2181"] Yes, difficult child is currently taking 3 online courses. Two courses now, actually, because he has already completed one course and passed the EOI test. :smart: This is something they have yet to acknowledge, at least to me. Four hours a day are dedicated to his online courses, and he is (supposed to be) in the regular classroom for the remainder of his courses. Alternative (night school) is done using the online courses, as well. We are told ad nauseum that the alternative kids do 20 lessons a night, and most of them complete them within an hour. By this standard, they feel it is perfectly acceptable to expect difficult child to do 40, 60, or more lessons per day, since he spends 4 hours a day on his online courses. husband and I do not find that to be an acceptable expectation at all, which we have had to remind them of constantly. Some of the kids are in Alternative due to disciplinary issues, but others are there because they want to graduate [U]ahead of schedule[/U]. difficult child has been skipped ahead two grade levels, and we have made it perfectly clear that he is NOT to accelerated ahead again because (if he stays on track) he will be graduating high school at 16 (almost 17) years old. husband and I have told them many times, over the phone and in meetings at the school, that we felt 20 lessons a day should be the goal. We said that if he were to do less than that, he should and would do them at home, so that he would have his daily 20 completed. They 'agreed' to what we suggested, but they didn't hear what we said at all. They are still of the opinion difficult child should do 40, 60 or more lessons per day at school, and ALSO do 20 at home. The principal likes to talk about how their child has homework, which takes them 3-4 hours to complete, every single day of the school week... as if to illustrate that doing homework every night was simply a part of being in school. (Ummm... wrong. It is not. NONE of my kids (easy child or difficult child) has ever had nightly homework to do.) I fully intend to have it written into his IEP that his daily goal (for online lessons done either at home or at school) is set at no more than 20. And to be honest, they are lucky I'm willing to consider that fair... when I was in high school, it was unusual for me to have even 2 assignments per class, per day. I guess that's just not enough nowadays... I have long suspected that they are trying to get difficult child out the door and out of their hair as quickly as they possibly can. I don't believe he's as far behind as they say he is. Meaning, not to the point where he is at risk of failure and having to repeat the year. But if their goal is to get him graduated well ahead of schedule? Yeah, he'd definitely be behind on that goal. I hate dealing with this ****. I don't know about the kiddos, but MOM is sooooooooooo ready for summer break! [/QUOTE]
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