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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean? Is something going wrong that isn't being addressed?[/quote]

I don't feel like he is challenged. There is 1 teacher and she mostly attends to the other kids who require more attention. My kid just sits at his desk, gets homework that is just busywork. I don't know if private school it the answer or a move to a different school district.[/quote]Not being challenged is not the same as being ignored.  Have you talked to the teacher to see if there's anything they can do?  [/quote]

Have you talked to the teacher?  7 year olds are not the most reliable reporters.  DS is 7 and is in the highest reading group in his class.  I was looking through his books from school a few weeks ago and notice they were lower than the ones he was reading at the start of the school year. I asked him why and he said it was b/c they read all the higher level books.  Of course this didn't sound right.  When I went in for the parent teacher conference a few days later the teacher told me the kids went to easier books for a week while she was teaching them some advanced concepts.  She realized it was easier to teach the concept with lower level books and then shift them back to their higher level.  So if I relied on what my son said I would have assumed he wasn't being challenged but as it turns out it was the opposite.  She was helping that group learn higher level concepts DS is just an unreliable reporter.

The teacher may be doing more with your son that you think.  Talk to her.

BTW we are in Arlington, not title 1 and DS has 23 kids in his class.  I think it was 25 at the start of the year.

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OP here. DS's class started with 24 and now there are 27 or 28. One problem is that the newer kids can't speak any English. I think 1 child may never have been in school. I see the child wandering around the classroom. He is very disruptive. The one and only main teacher looks very overwhelmed. She doesn't necessarily looked stressed but it feels like she is spending all her time on these new kids. I actually asked her during parent teacher conference about help. She said she got the ESOL kids but no additional support. It isn't like they hired extra ESOL teachers because there were incoming ESOL kids.

I lived in a different state. If I remember correctly, the brand new ESOL kids had their own class. My school had a ton of Japanese diplomats. I remember they were in their own class. I don't remember the early elementary years though.[/quote]

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