Elem grades are useless

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so sorry OP. Posters are so rude here. I am the parent who has a kid in ces. I misunderstood your problem. I thought it was once in a while blip in grades. I didn’t understand that the your child was already getting help. I tried to make you feel better by sharing that my own kids get lower grades on random assessments but not overall on the report cards. Then posters here flamed me and suggested that I pull my kid out of ces. Some people have less than perfect kids who sometimes get less than perfect grades which is completely normal but you won’t find them on dcum. Posters here are ready to criticize parenting and diagnose your child with disabilities. I doubt you will find any useful advice here.

DP. When people have kids with straight A’s who don’t get into the CES, they’re frustrated to hear that a kid in the CES isn’t a perfect student and they’re going to lash out at you because their kid’s not being accepted is a sore point. You know your kid belongs there. Don’t listen to them.

[Anonymous]

Foundational skills are assessing your child’s skill set and not growth. Currently your child is not on grade level for reading. It might not be fun to hear, but at least you know and the school is already working with you to improve your child’s reading. However, if you want quicker progress, you might consider adding in outside tutoring. Unfortunately, reading can’t be remediated super quickly- especially in large classes. Tbh, that sounds like the LEAST subjective grade.

The rest in elementary school can vary a lot by teacher- though that’s true of other grade levels too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Foundational skills are assessing your child’s skill set and not growth. Currently your child is not on grade level for reading. It might not be fun to hear, but at least you know and the school is already working with you to improve your child’s reading. However, if you want quicker progress, you might consider adding in outside tutoring. Unfortunately, reading can’t be remediated super quickly- especially in large classes. Tbh, that sounds like the LEAST subjective grade.

The rest in elementary school can vary a lot by teacher- though that’s true of other grade levels too.

I remember the school doing half-baked assessments. One of my kids had a new teacher who seemed overwhelmed by having to assess 25 kids in a short-span. She mostly just rubber-stamped whatever the previous year's teacher said. Their feedback seemed off to me so I had a private reading assessment done and found yes in fact they were off by a half-dozen reading levels. I just continued to work with my kid at the appropriate level since the school wasn't interested in my opinion, but later that year when a more seasoned teacher did the follow-up assessment they actually did get it right. My point is the school doesn't always get these things right and you may want to seek an outside evaluation.

[Anonymous]

Stay on top of it for sure, but again it's just 2nd grade. For many kids reading suddenly clicks around 3rd grade.