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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP, but we also did not realize that our DC had been accelerated (3rd and 4th grade math in 2nd grade) last year.  We found out later in the year when it was already in full swing.  It was a great year for him and he was ready for the work.  But, we certainly didn't push for it or ask for it - the school decided where he would fit.
However, the problem this year is that my DC (now in 3rd grade) has to do 3rd grade math along with all the other 3rd graders.  He is bored and hates math this year.  My issue is that when the SCHOOL accelerates the kids (with no outside pressure from the parents), they should figure out a better way to integrate a new curriculum that, essentially, decelerates them.  I think it is terrible for the school to speed way up then slow way down - that is not a way to teach.

Mind you, I would feel differently if we had pushed for acceleration or we had drilled at home to push him ahead of what the school was offering.  If we had done those thing, then we would have to accept that we were outliers and had created this problem ourselves.  That isn't the case here.  The school created the problem by accelerating him and then slowing him down.  [/quote]

The same happened to us (and I guess to all the Mont Co second graders who were in 3rd grade math last year. And it was quite a lot of them, about 50 kids at Rosemary Hills alone.)[/quote]

My child also came from the Rosemary Hills cohort.  We were not informed when he was accelerated.  We did not find out until November at the P/T conference.   We likely wouldn't have even found out then if I hadn't asked specifically which class he was in (which I only knew to do because his older sister had been accelerated and it seemed to me that the material he was bringing home didn't jibe with what I knew previously about his grade level math.)  On the report cards it never said what level math they were doing, only that the child was "above grade level".  A parent would not necessarily understand that the report card "above grade level" mark meant that the child was actually one whole year ahead of grade.

As far as I know, all the RHPS kids who were accelerated were then decelerated and made to repeat 3rd grade math, which even though it is now C2.0 math is largely the same as the previous math (practically identical in the first half of the year so far).  I am aware of several parents who asked to have their child kept on the same one year ahead path and all were refused, without any reference to prior performance data or assessment of present knowledge/readiness.  [/quote]

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