We focus more on the things the kids are good at. Not everyone will do well in school. School is harder for those with LD's and disabilities. The fact is the public school evironment doesn't work for all. It is trying to force people all into the same style of learning. In my opinion we need schools that fit that persons style that we all can afford to put our kids into. Fax your complaints to Washington. This is the only way we see will changes happen in the USA.
School staff leave the labeling up to the Professionals!Medacine only bandaids the problem. You are trying to force that kid into a teaching style that doesn't work for that student!
I would let it go also...can you find someone else to help with math...I know this is going to sound crazy, but I can't get a math tutor for him because he isn't failing. We live in a very, very small town, and the number of tutors is so small that they go to the failing kids first. So I am trying to help him myself, but I am embarrassed to admit this, I don't remember how to do half of this stuff! It has been a long time since I was in school and I have forgotten most of it. I am going on the internet quite often to get worksheets and stuff. I guess I get a little peeved with her because I feel she isn't really teaching the kids, she wants the parents to do most of it, (we always get notes saying "Please go over this with your child, please work on this with your child" She even sent home sheets over spring break for the kids to study for the SAT's) I know parents should help and be involved and I am, this teacher just seems to send home an inordinate amount of stuff for us to do. This school sadly is mostly concerned with how well they score on the state tests that a lot of education is overlooked. Thankfully this is his last year at this school. Thanks to those who replied, I am going to just let this drop with her and only talk to my son about it.Hello! I am new here but sadly not to ADHD. My ds was diagnosed in first grade and he is now in 5th. During this time we have tried many, many meds and so far none have worked. So as of right now he is not on anything. He has gone thru so much in his little life, his father and I divorced and my ds and I moved five hours away. His father remarried very quickly and now he also has a step mother to deal with. (I am basically raising him on my own so there will not be much more about his dad here!) He has a few good friends, one best friend who is also ADHD but doesn't live by us (he lives about two hours away and they only see each other every two weeks). My question is this, his grades have suffered since being off meds, but not enough to freak out over. Yesterday his teacher (who by the way is not a very involved teacher, she seems to be one of those who is just biding her time until retirement, ya know?) tells me that he has some homework that he didn't turn in. Now I only found out about this because I sent her an email about bringing his spelling book home. She never contacted me about it. There were about five English assignments and two spelling. Now these assignements were not all from last week. Some were older. She never notified me about any of them! This morning she emails me and tells me that he didn't do them correctly and scored very low on them. My question to you guys is, since school is out here in three weeks, he is not failing, he is fed up with her(she told him when he had questions in math, that she couldn't help each individual student because she didn't have time) should I just let it go? I mean I am going to talk to him about it, but should I even bother to get into it with her? Next year he will be in middle school so he won't even be at that school anymore. I am going to talk to his doctor about different meds for next year but right now, even if I put him on them, they wouldn't be effective for school. He only needs them for school because while he is immature and emotional, it's not that bad and the meds never helped that anyway. Sorry this is so rambling, I am just trying to get it all in. Please let me know what you guys would do about the school thing.
Thanks, Robyn