I am so disheartened by this conversation.
My son goes to a private school, in a state that historically scores hgihly on standardized test (of course we practiaclly invented standardized tests...so take that for what it's worth....) and is regarded as a generally pretty good state for education...
Some of the stadards set forth here make me feel like telling my child, "give up now and prepare for a career eating boogers at the bus station..."
My son, who you may know from other posts is struggling with reading, came home with a 78% math test score, which we reviewed, some of his mistakes were failing to read the question acurately, and he tells me he's "worried about failing 3rd grade."
I swear there are days I just don't want to do this anymore. I mean, here's a kid who nails his multiplication facts, has just started division facts, and "gets it" and he's worried about failing...I really don't want to rachet up his homewokr/practice time any more...is there no time left for a kid to be a kid?
He's full of wonder and we talk and research answers to stuff all the time, just yesterday we talked about word endings, jet con trails, clouds and why thesun reflecting looks different, how it can rain when it's below freezing, why pancakes puff up, the history of the Green Bay Packers, he showed me a story he wrote and wants to publish on his own google docs and the picture he drew to go with it and we talked about the different ways to get a picture into an electronic document...this is not a kid who's going to fail at anything. Maybe I just need to realize that I've placed a higher value on him learning idfferent stuff in different ways than I have on him nailing the tested skills of the grade level above him, that maybe he's not going to scorre a perfect SAT and that academic scholarship to Notre Dame is more likely to be loans at a state university, and maybe I just need to be good with that.
My son goes to a private school, in a state that historically scores hgihly on standardized test (of course we practiaclly invented standardized tests...so take that for what it's worth....) and is regarded as a generally pretty good state for education...
Some of the stadards set forth here make me feel like telling my child, "give up now and prepare for a career eating boogers at the bus station..."
My son, who you may know from other posts is struggling with reading, came home with a 78% math test score, which we reviewed, some of his mistakes were failing to read the question acurately, and he tells me he's "worried about failing 3rd grade."
I swear there are days I just don't want to do this anymore. I mean, here's a kid who nails his multiplication facts, has just started division facts, and "gets it" and he's worried about failing...I really don't want to rachet up his homewokr/practice time any more...is there no time left for a kid to be a kid?
He's full of wonder and we talk and research answers to stuff all the time, just yesterday we talked about word endings, jet con trails, clouds and why thesun reflecting looks different, how it can rain when it's below freezing, why pancakes puff up, the history of the Green Bay Packers, he showed me a story he wrote and wants to publish on his own google docs and the picture he drew to go with it and we talked about the different ways to get a picture into an electronic document...this is not a kid who's going to fail at anything. Maybe I just need to realize that I've placed a higher value on him learning idfferent stuff in different ways than I have on him nailing the tested skills of the grade level above him, that maybe he's not going to scorre a perfect SAT and that academic scholarship to Notre Dame is more likely to be loans at a state university, and maybe I just need to be good with that.