RE: Some parental advice from all the lovely parentals? Non parentals also welcome :D
December 10, 2015 at 6:07 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2015 at 6:14 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 10, 2015 at 1:51 pm)Losty Wrote: I think the advantage would be that my daughter graduated to a 5th grade reading level yesterday and she is slowly growing to hate school because "it's sooo boring". The academic disadvantage to being in a grade well under your level is that you get frustrated and discouraged. I want her to be somewhere where she can actually learn new things.
I suffered from this myself. In Teheran, I was in a private schol where, by sixth grade, I had studied French, geometry, and world as well as American history. When I returned to America in the middle of that school year was when I began hating school, because it wasn't just boring, it was stultifying. Even in my eleventh-grade US History class I never did any of the homework; the way the grade was assigned was 90% exams, 5% homework, and 5% attendance. Since I had already learnt the coursework in deeper detail than Mr Schiro was teaching, simply showing up and acing the exams gave me an A in that class for that year. Hell, I was stoned half the time, too. And because I had been put in remedial English due to having moved and my test scores not being available (pre-Internet age, y'all), and because Mr Zarit weighed his grades towards attendance and not performance, I flunked bonehead English the first semester (moved to Honors once test-scores arrived).
I left high school, though, with a 2.9 GPA, because other teachers weighted attendance or homework higher, and outside of English and the fine arts (both drawing and music) I was bored out of my skull, and saw no point in re-covering material I already knew. It was a bad decision I made, there; and that's why I say keeping your child challenged is a good thing, so long as you understand that the most important teacher a child has is an involved parent -- something you obviously grasp.
