Thanks, Fwtxmom for your thoughts. I do think my son is avoiding writing and reads and finds other things to do rather than do his work. His teacher is supposed to be making accommodations, but in my opinion they are not nearly enough. I believe SHE feels she is making appropriate accommodations for him. I have difficulty talking with his teacher. She is NOT parent-friendly and other parents who have had older children with her say that that is just the way she is. The only accommodation I have seen her make was when they were working on long-division. She wrote out his problems for him on graph paper.
He brings home more unfinished classwork than others (according to the teacher) and it is usually work that involves a lot of writing, ie. reading comprehension questions. The other day, he was assigned 7 comprehension problems to do in class. He only finished 2. I have no idea how long the students were given to complete it. He is allowed to type up work at home, so I decided I would have him dictate his answers to me and I typed them up. It took 4 minutes to answer 3 additional questions! I then had him type and answer the remaining 2 which took him approximately 30 minutes because he had to reread the chapters.
His teacher also started to deduct points off his tests because he did not finish them in the allotted time! On one test his score was unaffected, but on another, the deduction brought down his grade on his social studies test from an �A� to an �A-.� I have not spoken to the teacher about this yet. I am not as bothered by his grade as I am because the teacher is not accommodating him; rather, she is penalizing him. DS is bothered that his grade was affected. I should mention that DS is in a private school.
