Post by puzzled on Aug 27, 2008 10:08:04 GMT -5
got a call this morning from the school, and a teacher says she wants to talk to me about Chase. Of course, my heart fell, in trouble already? He has only been in school a week! LOL, but she was calling me to tell me that although Chase is in the top reading group for his grade, he has been tagged for gifted and he could be in her reading class...the pros: They don't do much paper and pencil work, they mostly do computer research on different subjects, right now they have just started a unit on the history of chocolate, they do some paper and pencil work to get ready for state testing, but mostly not, which is great, Chase hates paper and pencil work, I use it for punishment, LOL Also, they don't do AR so much. They do silent reading one day a week, but do not push the AR points the way the other reading classes do. You all remember the issues Chase has with AR.....and lastly, the classes meet at the same time, so his schedule will not have to change.
The cons: In fourth grade Chase was in the gifted reading group, and he left that classroom to go to E.D.G.E. which is our gifted program...anyhow, he was in the middle of his testing for ADHD, all the teachers knew it, they were filling forms out right and left for me for the doctors, the school psych was observing him in classes. Well, he kept forgetting to bring his reading book to class, which is a symptom of ADHD, and finally the reading teacher screamed at him that he could not go to E.D.G.E. "till it snows in July". Chase did not tell me she screamed at him, another little girl in his class told the story to Jonna in dance class that evening. I told Chase to give it time, he was starting meds and things were bound to improve. Three weeks later, he had started meds, he had brought his grades up a full letter grade in three classes, one of them hers, and he was doing wonderfully, so he asked her if he could go to EDGE again, she sneered at him and said, "Has it snowed in July yet?" He came home that night and tearfully told me what she said and how she said it. I called the principal, who talked to her...she backpedaled saying she "wanted to wait and see if the changes in Chase were going to last", and that he could start going to EDGE the next week if he continued to remember his supplies for class. I told the principal that first of all, she was only saying that because HE asked her, and if that were indeed true, she could have said the same thing to Chase. He would have been encouraged and come home excited instead of broken; and that I did not appreciate her disrespecting my child that way. The principal also told me that she had no right to take EDGE away from him, he tested into it, and he should have been allowed to go each time.
Anyhow, she is the co teacher in this class. Soooo, what do you think? I am going to run it by Chase tonight, but I want him to switch classes....
The cons: In fourth grade Chase was in the gifted reading group, and he left that classroom to go to E.D.G.E. which is our gifted program...anyhow, he was in the middle of his testing for ADHD, all the teachers knew it, they were filling forms out right and left for me for the doctors, the school psych was observing him in classes. Well, he kept forgetting to bring his reading book to class, which is a symptom of ADHD, and finally the reading teacher screamed at him that he could not go to E.D.G.E. "till it snows in July". Chase did not tell me she screamed at him, another little girl in his class told the story to Jonna in dance class that evening. I told Chase to give it time, he was starting meds and things were bound to improve. Three weeks later, he had started meds, he had brought his grades up a full letter grade in three classes, one of them hers, and he was doing wonderfully, so he asked her if he could go to EDGE again, she sneered at him and said, "Has it snowed in July yet?" He came home that night and tearfully told me what she said and how she said it. I called the principal, who talked to her...she backpedaled saying she "wanted to wait and see if the changes in Chase were going to last", and that he could start going to EDGE the next week if he continued to remember his supplies for class. I told the principal that first of all, she was only saying that because HE asked her, and if that were indeed true, she could have said the same thing to Chase. He would have been encouraged and come home excited instead of broken; and that I did not appreciate her disrespecting my child that way. The principal also told me that she had no right to take EDGE away from him, he tested into it, and he should have been allowed to go each time.
Anyhow, she is the co teacher in this class. Soooo, what do you think? I am going to run it by Chase tonight, but I want him to switch classes....
I was about to conquer the world but then I got distracted by something shiny.
I'd also love to be there the first time he showed up in class with it on. 