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<blockquote data-quote="Bunny" data-source="post: 559213"><p>I agree with you, Buddy. It was nice of difficult child to volunteer in the first place, but now he also sees that teaching something to someone else is not always as easy as he thinks it is. I'm not surprised that it ended this way, though. I knew that difficult child could not be patient enough with easy child to get through the work and I knew that easy child would get frustrated with the work and difficult child would not know how to talk him through it. Not that I'm knocking difficult child for that. I struggle with talking easy child through his frustration at times and I'm the adult! I knew it would be hard for difficult child, but he wanted to help so we gave it a try. </p><p></p><p>As far as husband goes, we'll see if he actually steps it up and tries to teach the new math to easy child. At least I can print out practice pages from the program's website, so the work that we use for easy child's tutoring sessions is actually work from the curriculum. I will keep you all posted about it.</p><p></p><p>It seems like alot of the kids are struggling with the new program. easy child got a 67 on his last math test and his teacher was THRILLED with that grade. I questioned her as to why she was so happy about a grade that is barely above passing, and she replied that "a large number of kids" in the third grade at easy child's school failed that test. So many that they decided to let the kids who failed re-take the test. And she feels that the reason easy child did not fail is because of the support he is getting here at home.</p><p></p><p>At least the poor kid is getting support somewhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bunny, post: 559213"] I agree with you, Buddy. It was nice of difficult child to volunteer in the first place, but now he also sees that teaching something to someone else is not always as easy as he thinks it is. I'm not surprised that it ended this way, though. I knew that difficult child could not be patient enough with easy child to get through the work and I knew that easy child would get frustrated with the work and difficult child would not know how to talk him through it. Not that I'm knocking difficult child for that. I struggle with talking easy child through his frustration at times and I'm the adult! I knew it would be hard for difficult child, but he wanted to help so we gave it a try. As far as husband goes, we'll see if he actually steps it up and tries to teach the new math to easy child. At least I can print out practice pages from the program's website, so the work that we use for easy child's tutoring sessions is actually work from the curriculum. I will keep you all posted about it. It seems like alot of the kids are struggling with the new program. easy child got a 67 on his last math test and his teacher was THRILLED with that grade. I questioned her as to why she was so happy about a grade that is barely above passing, and she replied that "a large number of kids" in the third grade at easy child's school failed that test. So many that they decided to let the kids who failed re-take the test. And she feels that the reason easy child did not fail is because of the support he is getting here at home. At least the poor kid is getting support somewhere. [/QUOTE]
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