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Posted by Cheryl Isaak on September 17, 2005, 3:34 pm
On 9/17/05 9:07 AM, in article dgh4dp$850$04$1@news.t-online.com, "NL"
> Cheryl Isaak wrote:
>> I begin to wonder if I did her a disservice when I started her in school -
>> she's a September baby, socially quite mature and an eager learner. BUT,
>> there is a wide spread trend of starting July, August and September birth
>> date kids a year later to give them a leg up in the maturity stakes. So
>> there are lots of 7 and 8 year old first graders - reading and doing math
>> and further skewing the numbers.
>
> Well, does she enjoy going to school? I mean generally, everybody has
> days when we just don't want to leave the house ;-)
> Does she like her teachers? Does she have friends at school?
>
> If she likes going to school and learning you haven't done the wrong
> thing ;-)
She loves it and her teacher this year describes her as an eager student.
>
>> We been part way down this road once - last year they did "Dibels testing"
>> for phonetic awareness. She scored quite poorly and they wanted to slap her
>> in special ed to "correct" it. We refused and asked to have her retested.
>
> Ok, I have no Idea what this test is.
Phonic awareness - "a" says "ah" and other such gems. The problem with the
test is that is normalized for a child that was 6 months or more older than
she was at the time. I even found a bit on line that didn't recommend it be
given until school had been in session 3-4 months, not 4 weeks. It was being
misused, IMHO.
(SNIP)
>
> I know special ed sounds scary and leaves a really bad taste in ones
> mouth, but special ed in first/second/third grade is better than bad
> grades in highschool due to unresolved problems in the first few years
> of school.
>
I'd agree with you except, we had a lousy experience. Real problem, just a
slow start reading (common in boys with higher IQ's) and whenever we asked
why he still needed "aid", a new "problem" was added. We pulled him out in
6th grade and he gets mostly B's and a leavening of A's and C's. The C's are
mostly due to homework not being turned in on time. I won't go in to the
amount of time that we have spent helping him catch up on skills he missed.
His average reading - things like Band of Brothers and other histories of
WWII.
Cheryl
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