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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are true middle class (not Potomac middle class) and we moved one to private at 6th and our youngest is in public with a hope of staying until 5th but this year has been a train wreck so we are looking at private for next year.

By train wreck:
1. Math is way too easy for 2nd.  They haven't even learned money, time or fractions yet. Just very boring writing out numbers and extremely easy graphs.  Who has more?  Things kids in preschool could do.   
2. HW is the same sheet different numbers every night.  There has been 7 errors located on those sheets already
3. The teacher is flustered and mean.  She doesn't look any kids in the face.  She talks down to them. Even when parents volunteer or open house day.  
4. My child's anxiety about school has increased.  They have 27 kids in their class and many don't give a crap about being there or their school work. A lot of kids being sent to principal, teacher yelling, kids disrupting other kids. At least 5 that do not speak English.  
5. My child is in the top reading group and they meet 2 times a week while other groups meet 3-4 times a week.  
6.  Most of the day is spent with kids at their desks self-guiding themselves to do worksheets or read.  There is ver little actual teaching going on.  
7.  2.0 has been awful.  My oldest missed it so comparing both it is obvious which one was better.  [/quote]

Can you share which school this is please?[/quote]

I rather not because it could easily tag me but is not a W school and not a focus or Title 1 school.  Basic mid-county 20% FARMS school.  [/quote]
Not PP, but my DC learned how to count money in first grade (though we did it at home, too), and learned how to tell time (including half past, quarter past, x before the hour) in 2nd grade.   I also volunteered in the class so I saw what they were learning.

This is in a non W cluster, not title 1/focus school.[/quote]

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