WHO does the instruction if she misses a pretest?
A 5th grade pretest? 5th grade math teacher, since she'd be teaching the 5th graders that same material at that same time anyhow. (The pre-tests aren't front-loaded - as the 5th grade class moves to a new unit, DD would test on that unit.)
A 6th grade pretest? The math textbook, I assume. Which really means "me at home." In my ideal world, I'd have a 6th grade book at home, too (which I get the impression that the school would really rather me not have, but what they don't know won't hurt me), and DD and I would look over each unit in advance, and decide whether she felt the need to practice it, and then either pass the pre-test or not, accordingly.
Yes, that does help, thank you! It's so hard to switch between being That Mom (to get the ball rolling) and Sane and Reasonable Parent (to get the plan implemented).
