What happens if I tell my kid not to do ST Math at school?

[Anonymous]

I don't know. Do you really want to teach your kid they don't have to do school assignments they're not interested in? That seems like it could come back to bite you in high school when their grades really matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also have an AAP 4th grader.

Last year during virtual for all - the teacher called me to say that our son was not doing ST math and I flipped her to my husband who is a math teacher. So my husband says to her: he doesn’t like ST math, and I’m a math teacher & I teach him math & we’re just not gonna make him do it - it’s not worth it.

Anyway the teacher gave him some kind of song and dance about how he had to do ST math because it tracks their progress and she needed that and she couldn’t rely on my husband telling her he was making progress … so we told him he had to do it…

This is not where I thought your story was going. Your DH math teacher should know better than to suck all the joy out of learning by forcing ST Math.

Shouldn't the teacher be tracking their progress...by assigning work and then grading it?

Bbbbbut teachers don’t have TIME to do that. They’re busy. Doing other stuff.

Anyway, yes, ST math is an automated assessment. It will help the teacher k we what small group to place your child with. Tell your kid to suck it up for the first month.

DP.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's a good idea to teach your kid that he's so special that he doesn't have to do what everyone else is required to do simply because he/you feels bored. I think that's a worse lesson than whatever happens in ST Math.

As for people talking about "sucking the joy out of learning," my kid tells me that math homework and reading books assigned by his English teacher suck the joy out of learning. I tell him to do it anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also have an AAP 4th grader.

Last year during virtual for all - the teacher called me to say that our son was not doing ST math and I flipped her to my husband who is a math teacher. So my husband says to her: he doesn’t like ST math, and I’m a math teacher & I teach him math & we’re just not gonna make him do it - it’s not worth it.

Anyway the teacher gave him some kind of song and dance about how he had to do ST math because it tracks their progress and she needed that and she couldn’t rely on my husband telling her he was making progress … so we told him he had to do it…

This is not where I thought your story was going. Your DH math teacher should know better than to suck all the joy out of learning by forcing ST Math.

Shouldn't the teacher be tracking their progress...by assigning work and then grading it?

lol well he “felt” for her - he knew that the schools ask for things like that.