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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There is a big movement to self responsibility that’s actually the most important a kid can learn in MS. More important than any of the underlying memorizing topics and the stupid grades. Focus on that transition. Your child absolutely needs to learn to advocate for themselves. Learn this now. Candidly, my reaction to your post was: sounds to me like this is your first or only child and you are too involved.[/quote]
Sometimes APS can go a bit hardcore on these messages.  I have a 5th grader this year and she's been in tears a few times with worry about how hard middle school is going to be based on speeches by her 5th grade teachers.  She's a kid who has never needed to be reminded to turn in homework, complete an assignment or even lost a water bottle.  She's super organized and consciousness. I keep reminding her that these speeches aren't meant for her, and she understands, but they can be pretty intense.  Hopefully middle school won't be 3 years of being beat over the head with the message that high school will be even harder and creating artificial hoops for kids to jump through just to prove they're ready.  Life is hard enough.[/quote]

She sounds very sensitive.  If she has her shite together, she'll be so completely fine in middle school.  What they ask of kids is not that hard for a motivated and neuro-typical kid.  It's just not.  A lot of the messaging in middle school is for the parents.  Stop doing everything for your kid.  Let them fail and make mistakes and sort it out.  Some of the parents struggle with this more than anything the kids are asked to do.[/quote]

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