Will we live through 6th grade

April 27, 2006

I really don't know what to do or think. THis is the second year of

middles school (5-6-7_ and My son did " okay " in 5th grade - had 2

teachers, one he meshed with one that was glad to see him go at the

end of the year. This year he started out with 2 nice lady teachers

who have been teaching for a long time. They are very structured,

BUT, they are very set in their ways. He lasted half the year in

the English teacher's class and she just didn't want to accomodate

him at all. When I asked if she could remind my son to write his

assignments in his planner she said she already tells the whole

class twice and he should be able to do it when they do. She wrote

me an e-mail about how she read that " these kids " need to be taught

consciequenses of their actions. I tried to explain that negative

conscequences only make things worse and that my son will react

better to positives. So we changed teachers and the new one is

doing better. Now his Science Math teacher has had it and with 36

days left of school they are going to pull him out of those

classes. At the beginning the quarter they put in place a really

neat point system where the teacher would give him 1 to 5 points

each period and he could earn prizes and priviliges. It started out

good, but some of the teacher would forget to remind him to put the

points on and then the Math teacher started putting zeros in red and

writing long notes about how aweful he was. I just can not see how

he is going to make it through to high school at the rate he is

going now. Someone please, please, please tell me it will get

better. I suggested today that he may need a parapro to shadow him

and keep him on track - does anyone with middle school kids have

something like this? Also he is not on any medications and I am

seriously thinking it may be time to look into this.

Barely hanging in

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