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[quote=Anonymous]Your AART should be pushing into the class and working with the kids. I know that our child's packet included work that he completed with the AART, they were more logic puzzles and problem solving worksheets. They required kids provide an answer and write how they got that answer.

Teachers know what kids are above grade level in their work. Do your Teachers provide your daughter with extra work to do when she completes the assigned work? Is she doing that work? That tells them that she is completing her work and doing the extra work. Is she picking out different books to read in her free time? Is your daughter getting LII services? That would tell you that she is on the radar of the AART and that the Teachers know she has been seen as advanced in certain areas.

My son's GBRSs included specific comments about books that he was choosing to read that supplemented what they were doing in class. They included information about the extra work he was doing when he completed his work. They notice more then you think. DS had 28 kids in his second grade class but the comments were very specific in their examples for him. They heard him and saw him. They are far better at their job then people want to believe. Yes, there are some that are not good but most are pretty darn good.

If you want more then is happening at school you have to supplement, it really is that simple. This isn't new. My parents needed to provide extra tutoring for one of my siblings and myself because of LDs and supplementation for my other siblings because they were bored in school. That was 40 years ago. Is it fair? No but I am not going to leave my child's educational success in the hands of the Public school system that have to meet the needs of such a wide swath of kids. I think the foundational skills that he is getting at ES are solid and good but I know he is capable of moving past that. I know that the schools cannot meet all of those needs, they don't have the time or resources to do so, so I supplement. I am not interested in sending him to private school for a variety of reasons so we do RSM. And he reads at home. And we take him to museums. And we watch documentaries as a family. And he does Scouts. It is my job as a parent to look out for my kid so that is what I do.

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