Aparently my child’s “below the expected grade level.” October 4, 2007
Posted by caldi-chan in : parents, schools , trackbackShe’s four, she’s cute, she can do a puzzle faster then I can write a blog entry. She can sing along with her prefered songs, identify all the parts of her body and has almost learned grannys phone number in case of emergencies.
Yet now keep this in mind, the following she CAN’T do, means she’s not up to snuff.
She cannot recognize dot formation numbers on Dice and Dominos. -That’s a given we don’t own any dominos and the dice I do have are the actual numbers. Numbers not dots. In this day and age of everything being digital I think dots are phased out.-
She can’t count to ten in the right order. I have no reason to explain this, I have been teaching her her numbers since she was three and a half. It could be mild dyslexia for all I know.
And for some reason, she doesn’t know gray, black, or white. I have no idea what that means. But in grand total, these reasons are …. call me an idiot if you like, but I honestly think they are stupid. She’s only four damn it.
She’s been watching educational tv shows since birth, and god knows how many times we have sat down and practiced out letters and numbers.
Where did I as a parent go wrong?
Also she needs a speech therapist.
ummm… ok. THAT I expected.
Even I have a lisp, and I remember how *stupid* I felt when I had the first session. I remember telling the guidance teacher, “The lady made me feel dumb.” After one session, I never saw her again.
What am I going on about?
Well it seems that elementary schools now have something called “Strong Beginings.”
Each student is watched, and assigned tasks to see how smart they are. That’s the lazy mans terms. Also parents are told at the start of school, not to feel discouraged at results. It won’t effect their childs grades or anything.
I never had this when I was a kid.
However..
I can’t help but feel like a stupid moron now, because I am incapable of teaching my daughter the basics.
Thanks so much educational system.
You just made 23 parents give or take a few dads or moms, feel like idiots.
Because what their children do not know reflects on them and their abillity to teach.
Thanks so much.
Addendum: Found this in my daughters school PDF of their first News Letter.
While the tasks are not considered tests, there are “results” sent home to the parents. It is these results that makes it seem and feel more like a test. Even on my daughters sheet of paper had a value of ten, and each grade was 7 or less.
If these were not tests, why the grading like system?
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