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[quote=Anonymous]"Is my child engaged? Are they slower to pick up material than the typical child? Does my child seem happy, stressed, confident, worried, etc? Is he or she a good friend or prone to drama? Are they a good citizen? Do they think outside the box? Are they creative? Do they participate? "

The above is 100% relevant, and are good things to know about your child. How they are doing and compared to the other kids in the class is 100% irrelevant, and it's none of your business how the other students are doing. Worry about your kid: are they learning?  Engaged?  Improving? Etc. How they are compared to their peers means nothing, because you don't know what level the peers are at, nor should you.

I do not believe the poster who said there are children who don't know where they stand as far as levels in reading/math group (certainly by a few weeks into first grade they all know.  They also know which kids don't do their homework or classwork, which are the disruptive ones who throw pencils across the classroom, which ones talk non-stop instead of paying attention, Etc). To me that's a clueless child who has bigger issues.  Or, perhaps the parents are putting on so much pressure, the child doesn't want to say they're at the bottom, or even, I'm not at the top. I don't know every childs situation, but I promise you, the kids do know where they stand.[/quote]

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