Thank you so much! The time you've all taken to reassure me has been time well spent!
I wrote a letter to the director of curriculum for our district today in hopes that she will see how terrible EM is and implement a new program for next year. (Wishful thinking!) I have ordered Beast Academy and look forward to starting that with dd.
I am trying to find a teenage girl to mentor dd in math, thinking that a positive role model will help.
I love the idea of printing out the CC standards and both checking to see what dd knows and questioning the teacher on what she has assessed dd on. That is just the kind of logical advice I needed to arm myself with for tomorrows conference.
It was such a shock going from straight A's last semester to failing this one. I spoke with her teacher from last year briefly this morning and told her what was going on with dd and she was slack-jawed, neither of us can believe it. I am hoping that last years teacher can step in and advocate a bit. I know she cares about dd and can help us get to the bottom of this.
