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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I strongly believe my son got a bad placement because of misunderstanding the questions or something. He is an excellent reader, as evidenced by my own observations plus standardized test scores, but Lexia placed him barely at grade level. I wish I had made a fuss about it, honestly. It made school miserable for him.

Near the end of fifth grade I did tell the teacher I didn’t want him to do Lexia and insisted he read hardcover books instead during that time. This was because I pulled him out of school for a year and a half and when he resumed lexia, he just started up at the beginning of fifth grade where he left off off in third grade instead of getting a new placement test. I hated to be a high-maintenance parent but the teacher and principal didn’t have a problem with it.

Lexia is great for a lot of kids but I don’t think it’s good for advanced readers. Yes there will be things they learn that they don’t already know, like some Greek affixes, but for my son that happened about one in every twenty lessons. [/quote]

I'm sorry--and terrified--to hear that. Sounds excruciating. I hope the teacher was open to your child reading books instead, although it's shocking they didn't do another placement test upon your child's return to school. But if the earlier teacher poster is right, it should be possible to advance quickly if one focuses and avoids silly errors. The case of the child who started at 9 in grade 2 and advanced to 18 within a year gives one hope.[/quote]

Oh my gosh, thank you! I felt guilty for being angry (even though I wrote perfectly polite emails that were vetted by my husband). But he was miserable in school because he was doing these tedious tasks while his test scores showed him to be on a tenth grade reading level. After I asked that he read books, he was reading things like Fahrenheit 451 during Lexia time and he was so much happier.

Subjectively speaking I truly hate Lexia, particularly since the schools push it so much in part because they spent so much money on it. But I did research and it is an evidence-based program and a lot of teachers say they have seen fantastic results with it, even those who started out skeptical. I get that my frustrations are based on having a kid who is "twice exceptional" and are not representative of most kids' experiences. [/quote]

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