What if your kid is under the radar?

[Anonymous]

It is still early in the year with a new 2nd grade teacher but, I am starting to wonder if my kid is just blending in with the crowd. He doesn't get in trouble, gets good- but non specific- reports. There have been some discipline problems in the class room - but my child has not been involved.

By when should a teacher know the kids well enough to set individualized learning goals for them?

[Anonymous]

I not sure if a “personal learning plan” is a thing, unless your child has a disability and an IEP.

But in general you get person, detailed feedback at the fall parent-teacher conferences are.

If there are no issues you will not get a lot of personalized information before then.

[Anonymous]

Individualized learning goals?

[Anonymous]

LOL. Try private school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is still early in the year with a new 2nd grade teacher but, I am starting to wonder if my kid is just blending in with the crowd. He doesn't get in trouble, gets good- but non specific- reports. There have been some discipline problems in the class room - but my child has not been involved.

By when should a teacher know the kids well enough to set individualized learning goals for them?

Once assessments are completed teachers are then able to target specific learning goals for your child. Your child's teacher will likely discuss this in detail with you at the upcoming PTC. Just relax and enjoy the peace.

[Anonymous]

We have three weeks of school under our belts. I am surprised you are getting *any* kind of report at this point.

I'd wait until the first round of teacher conferences.

[Anonymous]

you are not going to get individualized goals in public school, especially in the JKLM where many of the students are of similar academic ability.
They teach common core standards to the cohort and bring everyone up to each level as they reach it.

[Anonymous]

What OP describes sounds pretty normal to me. The teachers are busy setting classroom routines, getting to know everyone, and assessing the kids as a class and individually. I wouldn't expect anything more until the first round of conferences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL. Try private school

i don't get much in private either....

[Anonymous]

You expect detailed feedback during the 4th week of 2nd grade? My child actually has an IEP, and we don't generally get much feedback until the first parent-teacher meeting.

[Anonymous]

I have a kid like that. She just doesn't engage a lot on her own with teachers so I have to follow up with them and sometimes worry. It's too soon to do that though. But, you always can try to catch the teacher after or before school just to check in briefly. Sometimes the teachers seem to appreciate discussing children with parents in a positive way, outside of formal PT conference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is still early in the year with a new 2nd grade teacher but, I am starting to wonder if my kid is just blending in with the crowd. He doesn't get in trouble, gets good- but non specific- reports. There have been some discipline problems in the class room - but my child has not been involved.

By when should a teacher know the kids well enough to set individualized learning goals for them?

Public schools are like this almost everywhere. This helps explain why we send our children to a good Sunday school, weekend language immersion classes supported by an excellent teaching team, guitar lessons with a great teacher, ballet lessons with a wonderful teacher etc. We also set our own individualized learning goals for them in the sense that we supplement extensively outside the weak DCPS social studies curriculum by taking the kids to events geared at teaching American history Mt. Vernon, national parks, the American History Smithsonian museum and so forth.

I see my kids' DCPS classroom experiences as less than half the learning puzzle (and they attend an overwhelmingly high SES DCPS). More seems unrealistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is still early in the year with a new 2nd grade teacher but, I am starting to wonder if my kid is just blending in with the crowd. He doesn't get in trouble, gets good- but non specific- reports. There have been some discipline problems in the class room - but my child has not been involved.

By when should a teacher know the kids well enough to set individualized learning goals for them?

Public schools are like this almost everywhere. This helps explain why we send our children to a good Sunday school, weekend language immersion classes supported by an excellent teaching team, guitar lessons with a great teacher, ballet lessons with a wonderful teacher etc. We also set our own individualized learning goals for them in the sense that we supplement extensively outside the weak DCPS social studies curriculum by taking the kids to events geared at teaching American history Mt. Vernon, national parks, the American History Smithsonian museum and so forth.

I see my kids' DCPS classroom experiences as less than half the learning puzzle (and they attend an overwhelmingly high SES DCPS). More seems unrealistic.

A tiger has escaped from the zoo.

[Anonymous]

Right, DCPS parents are "tigers" if they ensure that their children participate in quality extra curricular activities with good teachers outside public schools. Hey, only a tiger would strive to round out an education a kid is largely herded through. Moreover, only a tiger would beef up the seriously blah DCPS humanities curriculum. For that matter, one might even be a tiger simply for being Asian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right, DCPS parents are "tigers" if they ensure that their children participate in quality extra curricular activities with good teachers outside public schools. Hey, only a tiger would strive to round out an education a kid is largely herded through. Moreover, only a tiger would beef up the seriously blah DCPS humanities curriculum. For that matter, one might even be a tiger simply for being Asian.

Nobody knows your ethnicity, chill! But you are a tiger, can't you just own it? It's fine. You do you.