It’s a week later and I’m still frustrated. I probably would have felt a bit better by now, but received a long e-mail yesterday from C’s school reiterating how he’s too distracted to be productive and also recommending I drill him with flash cards over the summer because he is behind in memorizing math facts. I [...]
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C has been continuing to use EPGY at home, since his school has been less than supportive. After a long period of not requesting to use EPGY at school, C did ask for it two days in a row. The first day they had trouble getting it working and the next day they insisted he do [...] Time is just flying by and now C’s additional testing with our public school district is just days away and I still haven’t mentioned it to him. I will have to this weekend, but still am uncertain how I will approach it. I’m not sure whether I should be honest and tell him that it’s likely [...] My husband came across an interesting article in The New York Times titled Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them. While it doesn’t mention gifted children, it does talk about how cognitive neuroscience is changing our expectations about teaching young children. It’s interesting to see that it wasn’t until recently that scientists realized that children [...] It was back in October when C’s school agreed to let him use EPGY there. However, many weeks went by without anything happening. I casually asked about it at one point and they said they were waiting to hear how it was going at home. I explained it was going fine and so I thought they [...] Ok, so it’s been 4 months since I started “studying” for the GRE. I put studying in quotes, because I’ve spent far more time avoiding studying than actually studying. Plus the things I read 4 months ago when I started aren’t exactly fresh in my mind anymore. I need to buckle down and spend the rest [...] It’s been two weeks since C’s school agreed to let him use EPGY math there, but they have yet to start. I find it a bit disappointing how long it’s taken to get any accommodations in place considering how open I was about his needs prior to his starting there. Still, they at least are willing [...] We finally had a chance to try out the EPGY program over the weekend. We’re going through the Open Enrollment Program, thanks to Melissa on Davidson’s. Even though the math program started C quite low (.5, which is half way through kindergarten), he still enjoyed it. He loves doing just about anything on the computer, thankfully. [...] 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 [...] |
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