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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two different questions have emerged in this thread and a few false dichotomies. One question involves remediation, the other acceleration. The remediation question has two parts -- one is where do you seek help when your kid is behind (school vs Kumon) and when do you conclude that you've got the kid in the wrong school. From a workload perspective, help from school, at least initially, makes sense in that it doesn't introduce an additional set of imperatives/objectives/requirements. It would be oriented toward helping your DC do better on the work your DC is already expected to do. As a first recourse, it also makes sense in terms of helping you think through the second question. If the school can't or won't help or has a very different set of expectations for your child than you do, then that's good to know ASAP. [/quote] Excellent advice PP. To the OP -- if your child is behind in reading and is struggling in school, I think it would be a good idea to meet with the teachers and get their detailed understanding of where your child needs extra help. Teachers and reading and other learning specialists should be able to diagnose reading difficulties and suggest/prescribe remediation activities in specific areas; sadly, some cannot. they may offer vague generalizations such as "Be sure to read with your child every night" or "He needs to use his strategies" or "He needs to learn his sight words" (when the bigger problem is that the child lacks the ability to decode and is especially confused with short vowel sounds. If you can get good agreement from the classroom teacher(s) and specialists on where you child needs extra help, you MIGHT be able to work out an arrangement with them that you and the tutor(s) (Kumon, etc) will work with your child intensively on those skills at home for a period of, say 6-8 weeks; during this time, your child will focus less on homework that doesn't target those skills, especially if the skills the homework does target are obviously too hard for your child. Perhaps you can get permission to modify the HW assignment (you reading to your child, or scribing) for this period of time, with the understanding that the child IS working on skills appropriate for him. ABSOLUTELY this is the best time to plug away and get your child up to grade level as soon as possible. Everything will be easier once your child is reading and writing on grade level. [/quote]
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