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<blockquote data-quote="Liahona" data-source="post: 581615"><p>I'm a teacher at heart. I love education, but I was also realistic enough to know that difficult child 1 couldn't focus on everything. I picked my battles (and teaching him to read was a huge battle). I knew what he would need and didn't care about the rest. We have been changing his classes left and right. He doesn't like choir so we change it. Has a problem with Spanish we changed that too. There are a few subjects I won't change: reading, math, and science. We also focus on behavior. He must learn how to behave. The rest I play to his strenghts. I try to get him to take classes he is interested in and good at. Then when he graduates he will know how to do something. Many schools just focus only on weaknesses or on so many weaknesses that no progress is made. And then he can't do anything and feels awful about himself. This is a pet peeve of mine so please forgive me for being preachy. </p><p></p><p>Oh, and he has enough work he hates at home to teach him how to stick with a job he doesn't like. I've got that covered, so school doesn't have to teach that lesson.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Liahona, post: 581615"] I'm a teacher at heart. I love education, but I was also realistic enough to know that difficult child 1 couldn't focus on everything. I picked my battles (and teaching him to read was a huge battle). I knew what he would need and didn't care about the rest. We have been changing his classes left and right. He doesn't like choir so we change it. Has a problem with Spanish we changed that too. There are a few subjects I won't change: reading, math, and science. We also focus on behavior. He must learn how to behave. The rest I play to his strenghts. I try to get him to take classes he is interested in and good at. Then when he graduates he will know how to do something. Many schools just focus only on weaknesses or on so many weaknesses that no progress is made. And then he can't do anything and feels awful about himself. This is a pet peeve of mine so please forgive me for being preachy. Oh, and he has enough work he hates at home to teach him how to stick with a job he doesn't like. I've got that covered, so school doesn't have to teach that lesson. [/QUOTE]
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