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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. Just wow. You, my friendly neighborhood "meritocrat", seem very much in need of an attitude adjustment and some education about math pedagogy and special needs. I don't doubt that your school is meh, but your contempt for your school and your child are really painful to read. No wonder your child is avoiding math. And clearly you cannot tutor the kid yourself, because of your attitude and failure to be helpful. Your kid is WAY behind. Like three grade levels behind.

The preferred term for "sucks at math" is "dyscalculia". It would seem to me that your child has special needs and should have an IEP and specially tailored support, either at school or privately. You can request an IEP meeting today. https://www.understood.org/en/articles/math-anxiety-vs-dyscalculia-compare-the-signs

When you're done calling everyone else lazy and pointing fingers, you can ask yourself why you haven't taken this problem more seriously until now. [/quote]

It's because in real life I'm a nice person, don't ask questions of teachers, and have let everything proceed and am only ranting here anonymously. In terms that are meant to be kind of outrageous to express frustration. I probably should've known that this is how it'd go from reading advice columns and the like. Never about the problem, always turned back on the asker, over-reference to counseling as the solution.

I probably should've just asked for a middle school that helps struggling students improve in math. [/quote]

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