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Rock and a Hard Place
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
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Ds's school has a set of standards and criteria that children are expected to meet by certain times. Failure to meet those criteria is brought up to the parent's attention immediately and the parent is expected to work out a program with the school for addressing those problems. There is a full-time, on-site special education teacher who works with the parents to achieve this. Generally, parents have a very hard time blaming the school for a child's failure to learn and they are informed constantly that they share the responsibility for education with the school. None of the criteria and standards are based on the achievements of a single class or direct comparison between students in a class, they are based on general standards that have been developed through years of data collection and observation.
Laura
Laura
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Like I said, you are the one with the competitive-about-your-kids problem. The teacher isn't reviewing the chart with the kids. Stop confusing parents trauma over the data with that of the children who will have no knowledge of the data.
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