I had to re-read JBs post to see if his son was upset with the school, or if they where upset with the lack of challange they saw. Like us I was hoiping for more challange, but since my DS6 seems ok, how much of this is my issue. I am waiting to see.
We're going through a lot of what many, many others have gone through before I think (Are we approaching this the right way? Are we giving him what he needs? Is he happy? etc.). Some of it is that this process moves really, really slow and that is very frustrating to us as parents.
So DS is mostly, but not completely happy. The melt downs and acting out are almost exclusively at home which may be
partially due to being 5.5. We have also seen some other negative behaviors develop that we want to nip in the bud. Like not wanting to try something hard because he can't do it perfectly the first time. We used to have a little of that. Lately we've had a LOT. We also observe a huge change in his demeanor if you talk about doing more advanced reading and math. He'll get very passionate about it to the point where he comes home and it's "dad can we do biology?" "can we do math?" I think he's a little disappointed with some parts of school.
Yes, we'd prefer that he be challenged a little more academically. I'd say that it's more that we are frustrated with the system, but there is some noticeable effect on the child.
JB
