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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your child has been through a private preschool and you have schooled them at home when not at preschool. Public school is not positioned to handle child like yours, Public school has a moral obligation to deal with students even if their parents are low income, uneducated, and can never afford a private preschool or parenting time like what your child received.  You can continue to enrich your child at your expense but dont come to a public school and ask everything be changed to your preference. Your request will be denied. [/quote]

Sure, public school funded by tax payers (like me) has no obligation to meet all children where they are and find ways to differentiate appropriately? Instead, let's focus all attention on the lowest performers and kill everyone else's joy for learning. That's a race to the bottom for this country if there ever was one.

As more low performers enter schools and more high performers leave for private, then you'll be whining that people are being racist.

And ffs, I am not asking everything to be changed to my preference. I just want my child to be allowed to do other things (like read books from home) while the other kids are still learning to sound out 'cat' and skip count by 2s. 
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Parent here who is wildly frustrated with public education. You realize this isn't going to happen, right? And in the defense of the public schools, how could it? They have JLARC reports yelling at them over not giving appropriate special ed, and so they implement all these proceedures teachers have to do to ineffectively deal with that (because dealing with it would take work at the administrative level, and Gatehouse doesn't want to do that). They have skyrocketing behavior problems and - based on what I hear from teacher friends - the school system won't back the teachers up when they try to deal with it because parents of some kids just bring lawyers in even when the kid was a legitimate danger to other students.

So you do what we did - you teach your kid basically everything at home. If your child is bored and has free time during the day, check with the teacher if you can send in a [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/store/book/beast-1a]Beast Academy workbook[/url] or [url=https://www.amazon.com/Primarily-Logic-Grades-Judy-Leimbach/dp/1593631227]logic puzzle book[/url], plus whatever DC is reading at home. My kid who was legitimately way ahead in school at a young age just brought all her own reading.

It does really get better for most kids once they are in level IV. But first it gets worse, because the 2nd grade math curriculum focus at least 80% on making sure everyone knows the concepts taught in K and 1, and maybe 20% on really slowly introducing borrowing and carrying (regrouping they call it these days).[/quote]

Thanks. I understand. I was really just asking for advice on what I could say to the teacher to ask for more options. People say don't say "My child is bored" so I am searching for better language. In the end it might not matter or change anything, but it's worth a shot. So any advice you have on how you talked to the teacher would be appreciated.

Also I love the idea of bringing in books to keep DC occupied (we love BA too) but want to ask teacher for permission.

There's also behavior issues in DC's class that don't help the situation.

I wish I could afford private.[/quote]

I mean, with a good teacher you actually do say "My child is bored" and they understand because they see that.

But otherwise, you say what a PP said, "Thanks for all your hard work this year. Here are examples of what Larlo is doing at home when we're trying to support what he's doing. Are there ways he can access some of these extensions during the day? We're happy to send something in, if that helps."[/quote]

Thank you! This is helpful.[/quote]

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