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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is foreign and obviously from a culture that thinks memorizing and regurgitating = learning. (Asian? Indian?)[/quote]

Then welcome to America.  Time to assimilate.[/quote]

This is OP. This will be my 4th and last posting here.
Thank you to all  who gave constructive criticism, including the free websites. I was hoping I would hear from ELL parents who had gone though the same experience as me, and how they handled it.
When DS first brought the syllabus and I saw all the college level material/books he had to read, I knew it would be more than chanllenging for him. I tried to see if he could take an alternate class, but there was none.

Imagine your pre-algebra kid being told he has to take calculus. That was our situation.
So I told him to take notes, bring everything home and do the best we could. Day after day he would come home saying he did not  understand the classwork. After meeting with the teacher, I learned more about the way the class was run and knew he needed much more structure to understand the class.

Independent reading/writing/cooperative group with minimal direct teaching did not work for him, and he was not learning.
 
I did meet with the IEP case manager requesting someone teach him how to write/do research. I am not sure it ever happened.
So I started getting him help. The teacher and admin knew he was getting help.  There was nothing mentioned about his essays all year long. Instead of showing it to one person, this time he showed it to 2 people and then memorized all the essays. 
Had we been told anything during the year, we would have addressed it and corrected it.
This class for him was a sink or swim situation. He worked very hard and thought he was swimming, but alas, he sank at the very last moment.
Had this happened earlier in the year, it would have been a learning process. Now it has become a punitive experience.
Let's all move on.

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