This time the problem is not about the language arts subject pull out. This time the complaint is about going to school in general.
He complained for about a week that he didn't like going to school anymore because you always have to put your head down. If you finish your work, you have to put your head down. If you finish your lunch, you have to put your head down. I said then eat slower and ask if you can do more work if you'd rather do that then put your head down.
Now he's saying he doesn't want to go to school. I don't think there's anything more to it than what I've said here. I think going to school is just starting to seem like a chore. Today he did the first meltdown, "mamma, I don't want to go. Nooo."
I told him before the meltdown, "You said you wanted to go to school before I signed you up. You said you said you wanted to continue school after we gave it a 30 day trial. Now you have to go until Christmas. You can quit at Christmas if you want but until then you have to go, you already made your choice, and quit complaining."
Mainly I came here to complain about it, but also to ask if it's something I should tell the teachers about or just a parenting problem. I mean the crying and not wanting to go to school.
Ok I also came to complain that school is slowing him down. I quit working with him at all, even though I know school wasn't going to teach him at his achievement level. I was only teaching him up to an hour a day and now he's going to half day pre-k. I did very little since school started. We baked the apple fractions book pie twice and I bought him an adding fractions and decimals book which he did one page out of because it was new and he's done most of a page of division because he got the concept so he could practice the problem. I have him read to me three times a week and he's been texting a few emails with my grandmother. In other words I've given him no homework since school started. Because he's already spending time in school I wanted him to focus on attendance and good behavior. The other day he just started doing a kinder math book that was laying around, just for fun. He couldn't do the 2s, 5s, and 3s straight. He kept getting them backwards and asking me which way they go. It looked just like they say when kids go back to school after the summer it takes them a while to remember how to do the work. I told the hubby about it. He thinks I should complain to the school. I was going to go back to teaching him about an hour a day. Who's right? Should I complain?
