Sorry you're having this problem! It's great that your DD is so motivated to write. Unfortunately, from what I've read generally it is very hard to get a public school to do much in terms of differentiation, particularly for one student. We have been in private schools but except for a few totally awesome teachers, also have not gotten much differentiation. Our DD was pushing for more math, so we have been using EPGY, which is individually paced, and it's worked very well so far (and have paid for everything ourselves). I imagine that some of the online materials or even books about writing, where your daughter could work at her own pace, might be more worthwhile in terms of your effort as well as hers. Also, perhaps you could find a tutor who might be willing to work with her--like a college or graduate student in English, or something. (and if you can afford it, I would just pay for everything yourselves and perhaps ask from time to time whether the school might help pay for some of it, without being too adamant--that's the most likely thing to work, although it is too bad CA won't help). It's great the teacher is willing to make some arrangements--I guess then you could focus on what the metric would be. I would suggest perhaps that as long as your daughter is keeping up with the papers, tests, etc. from the regular class, she be allowed to do other stuff independently (and quietly, of course) during class time. Then the teacher really wouldn't have to do anything extra except maybe not call on her during class if she sees your DD is working on something else, and maybe check in with you from time to time to see how it's going. I know EPGY gives 'transcripts' when you finish a course, but sorry I don't know how those will go over in the future if we try to have DD skip ahead later. Good luck!
Last edited by Dbat; 09/04/12 05:28 AM. Reason: clarification
