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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No textbooks, and we did have some "homework" eventually - a packet that was sent home on Fridays to be returned the following Thursday or Friday - one page of ELA and one page of math concepts a day, usually.  But the truth was I never had any idea where she was with her learning or whether she was on track.  And even at the PT conferences it was not clear at all - I'd hear "oh, she got a 576 on I-ready" but that means . . . nothing to me?  And when I asked what she needed to work on the teacher would pull up the test and go to look at the questions she got wrong and say "Oh, we haven't gotten to that yet, we haven't covered this yet" so I'm not sure WTF the testing was even supposed to be covering since it's not what they've learned?

My advice as a parent of a now-rising 1st grader - work on reading, writing, and math basics at home.  This is all stuff you can teach your kid and if you wait for the teacher to tell you where your kid is falling behind you'll probably be disappointed.  [b]I was shocked by both 1) how little reading progress DD made in Kindergarten, [/b]and 2) how few weeks it took me this summer to get her from a handful of sight words to staying up late reading chapter books by herself.  Her teacher sucked but luckily it wasn't a statistics or calculus teacher.  I can still teach whatever she needs to learn at age 5.[/quote]This right here is my exact concern. We’ve made so much progress on reading at home, but there really does not seem to be a serious emphasis on phonics at school. I want him to have the fundamentals down, but the day is so long and he’s too tired for enrichment at home. I guess just the weekends and summer will have to suffice?[/quote]
What school district?[/quote]

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