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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know, I watched a documentary about Finnish schools whose students undergo a sinlgle test throughout the entire school.  The reasoning is that the teacher should know without any testing where each student is.

I spend more time with DD than the teacher.  Why would  you assume I don't know her reading level?  I do.  I don't need fancy tests to know, but just to prove the point at school she is testing for 2nd grade level.

So why on Earth would you be sending  toddler books for her to read?  I can only attribute that to a mistake.[/quote]

I assumed - and still assume - you don't know her true reading level.  Parents always spend more time with their children.  Parents have also usually spent more time reading with their children.  Parent have NOT spent more time reading with their children with a notepad writing down every single word that comes out of the child's mouth, including 'uhs'.  Parents are often not taking the book away and saying to the child, "Now John, retell the book to me."  If the parent is doing this, most likely the parent is untrained and will accept a SUMMARY and not a retelling.  They are completely different.

And...just to prove "the point at school" as you so sweetly point out, if she's "testing for 2nd grade level" then the teacher is already aware of her reading level, no?  Schools don't usually test kindergarteners beyond the end of the first grade level.  Anyway, you seem to know everything.  We were trying to help explain to you how reading levels work, but you go ahead and teach the teacher a lesson or two.[/quote]

OP, the PP is telling you the DCUM rules:
1) You are not allowed to think that your child is doing anything more than "average" or "grade level".  If you think your child is ahead, you must be wrong.  
2) If you disagree with a teacher about anything, you are wrong, and you are one of those "snowflake" parents.

But in real life, my kid's teacher has been wrong about her reading level all year.  Which I gently questioned and advised about, and she ignored.  Then the counselor had the reading specialist work with my child, and what do you know?  My kid's reading level was exactly what I thought it was and the teacher was completely wrong.  By two entire grade levels.  [/quote]

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