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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a kid like OP too- was pretty much ignored by the teacher because he wasn't causing any trouble. He was a really good, calm kid and never had discipline issues. 
By 3rd grade, my kid started to express frustration in the classroom. We were pretty floored about what our kid was saying in the classroom. It wasn't like him at all. He got 2s on citizenship. 
We did talk to the teacher. The teacher said she had other pressing issues in the classroom (such as kids who were behind) that she needed to attend to. 
The teacher did try to appease us by giving DS a more "advanced" math worksheet and sent him to the corner without giving him any context whatsoever. 
Then she told us, see, he's not advanced in math at all since he couldn't do these problems on his own.

We had him tested and he scored 2 grade levels above in Math and 3 levels above in reading skills. We had many other tests done to make sure the first testing wasn't a fluke. 
He's in an AAP center now and doing fantastic. All 4s on citizenship. He loves it that he stays busy and engaged all day long. I can't attest to the piles of homework other people have mentioned. Even when there is a lot of homework, he gets them done in less than 1 hour- and that's probably once a week. Most nights there is no homework, but our center school told us that they prefer for kids to do the work at school.

My advice to the OP is to get outside testing done. You need those other data points. Without that outside data, we would have taken the teacher's word and told DS to just suck it up in the classroom. 
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OP here. It feels like all the ESOL kids are being placed in DS's class. There were several new students who came mid-year who can't speak any English. This is very different than the ESOL students we knew in kindergarten where parents may speak another language at home but kids speak decent English. It isn't like the school hired more ESOL teachers and the sole teacher seems overwhelmed and distracted with these new kids. It feels unfair that the classes are not getting more resources even when there are new students who require additional support. At the same time, my well behaved kid gets blank sheets of paper to draw on and write. I have no idea what math instruction they get. DS is pretty good at math and the worksheets seem exactly the same from the beginning of the year until now - single digit addition and subtraction.[/quote]

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