It’s been hard to stay positive the past couple of weeks. While I was thrilled to be one of the select few applicants to get an interview with my first choice graduate school, the interview itself was extremely disappointing. I was scheduled for an hour with the department head, but she rushed out after half the [...]
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This new school year has been an adjustment for C. It’s a new school, with a school day twice as long, full of new people and new routines. While he had few social or behavioral problems last year in kindergarten, this year has been different. The guidance counselor offered to add C to her social skills [...] This week has been crazy. I’ve been dealing with insurance issues for Z’s speech therapy, met with C’s school and had a GIEP meeting with our district. Below is a revised summary based on my post on Davidson’s. We met with C’s private school on Monday and then had a GIEP meeting with our district today. District officials [...] I’ve been offline the past few days, going back and forth with C’s new school. It hasn’t been very encouraging. It seems like whenever I push for him to get higher level work, they respond by talking about putting him back in kindergarten due to social, physical, or whatever reasons. The latest is that they’re saying [...] I started a thread on the Davidson forum for the first time tonight. I’m trying to keep an open mind and get some feedback from other parents before I meet with C’s school. I don’t want to advocate for the wrong thing. I just want C to be happy and successful in school. DS5 started first grade [...] It’s been a while since I posted about C’s little brother Z. Back in June we had early intervention evaluate him for an expressive language delay. He didn’t qualify for services and has been making some progress, but it’s quite slow. He’ll be 2 years old next month and still doesn’t string multiple words together. Most [...] C has his achievement testing tomorrow afternoon. I keep thinking about the poor timing of it, at the very end of the summer. Of course this is the result of the school district putting us off. Plus the whole thing is pretty ridiculous since he already had achievement testing this past spring. None of that matters [...] C’s kindergarten report card that recently came in the mail and made me reflect again on this school year. His grades tell a lot of the story. He received the highest marks in reading the entire year and also in math, with one exception. When he started to refuse to do all of the math drill [...] Yesterday I got an e-mail from C’s cyber school. They had been asking about our plans for next year and I told them that I’d like to keep him enrolled while he tries out his new school in case there were any problems where we’d decide to home school. I knew we couldn’t keep him enrolled [...] A recent Washington Post article talked about the importance of math education in an increasingly technical world. The goal was for even average math students to make it to advanced math courses in high school to prepare them for competitive colleges. They criticize the “math apathy” generated by many adults who didn’t find such skills applicable in their own [...] |
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