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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here.  Appreciate all the varied and many earnest perspectives. It does seem to be a maturity issue and not an ability or disability issue, but that will probably just take a couple more years of growing up.  Specifically things like writing ‘IDK’ in a blank instead of trying the problem, doodling  and just generally not taking the work very seriously.  We talked about it, we did re-do some work, and we discussed how to ask for clarification when a question confuses you or try using whatever you learned as your best guess. The grades have improved since then.  It’s our first year with letter grades so just wondered how much weight other parents gave to them.  We only spend about ten minutes on homework at night.  [/quote]

Grades are an indication of where your kid is. I took the 1-4 seriously, a 2 was a red flag. We only saw a few of those and they were in hand writing but those were immediate set up a conference to discuss and see what we could do to help DS improve.

The emphasis should be on the effort, which sounds like it is lacking in your son’s math work. I wouldn’t re-do some work, I would re-do all the work. What you are describing is a kid who is blowing off work in third grade. Until he stops with the doodling and not taking his work seriously there would be more then 10 minutes of homework. If he complained I would tell him that understanding and mastering these math concepts is the founndation of all future math. He has the ability to do better and needs to make his best effort. If he won’t make his best effort at school then we need to work on it at home.

A third grader understands when he is trying his hardest. That is what we have asked DS to do. When he finished his assigned work, he had time to doodle or read or do whatever the teacher had out for kids to do silently while others finished their work. The first thing we commented on was DSs effort scores. If a teacher had told us he was doing sloppy work and was rushing and wasn’t trying, that would have been a problem.

I would be concerned about the C but more concerned about your child’s effort level. [/quote]Getting a 2 being a red flag is a stretch.  Many teachers like to show growth and will give 2s early in the year so they can show growth over the course of the year.   I'd be concerned about 2 on the end of year report card, but not in the first half of the year.[/quote]

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