Hello All,
Just wanted to get some feed back from you regarding continued issues with DS11. Briefly, have posted before re him questioning Inattentive ADD vs Gifted vs. Anxiety. His teacher has leaned heavily toward ADD and medication all year. Last month we visited Dr. Amend for testing. I am awaiting "official" results, however have talked with Dr. Amend and we have an official primary diagnosis of Anxiety, and DS tested around the 85% for most areas, and at a 95% for math reasoning. Not "gifted" but certainly bright. I emailed the teacher about 3-4 weeks ago regarding test results, and requested a conference to review results and potential 504 suggestions. I never rec'd a reply. Mid-Terms came home last Monday. DS is getting a D+ in Math and C+/B- in Language.
( From a student who has never rec'd a "mid term" and always gotten mostly A's.) I e-mailed again with no reply.
In the meantime I feel like the teacher has really started to " pick on " DS. On last weeks pre-spelling test, he spelled the word biologist correctly, but because his "o" looked like an "e" he was marked wrong. He stated this to the teacher, and she still counted it. Had he got this word right, it would have gotten him out of the test at the end of the week.
Students receive "white slips" to be signed if they miss an assignment or don't follow directions. If they receive three in a month they are not allowed to attend a "good citizen lunch" at the end of the month. DS left three assignments home yesterday, and she sent three white slips home with him, instead of putting it on one.
Finally, the entire 5th grade has a cultural diversity project due next week that is a large part of their social studies grade. The directions were to pick a country of their heritage and do a tri-fold board depicting history, culture, food, trade, etc. The directions stated that they were not allowed to use "America" as a country. We happen to have a Native American background that I have researched extensively, and I thought that instead of adding to the number of German or Irish projects, one that reflected Native Americans would be a nice addition to the class.
I finally received an e mail back today after I left a voicemail yesterday. The teacher confirmed a conference time
( in two weeks!) let me know about DS's missing assignments, and pointed out that "No, we will not be reasearching our Native American History at this time".
Am I out of line at being really p o'd at this? Should I just go with the flow until our conference? Anyone have any input?
I have more examples but thought that I would put up the most obvious ones.
Thanks!
