Dottie - I understood exactly what you said and do agree - I just wish that these children could get the level of education that they need without it being so difficult :-) I spoke with little man today and basically told him that they would be willing to look at sending him up to a second grade class for math and reading after they see that he can do well in the first grade classroom. He said that he would very much like to try so that he could go do "more interesting" work. Today's work consisted of coloring in an owl that said welcome to school with a popsicle stick, writing the numbers 1-100 and then completing a small worksheet booklet where he drew what his car looked like and him coming to school. He was disappointed that there was no reading or "math" but I also explained that the first few weeks of school can be a little slow until everyone learns the routine and how things work....so we will see how it goes...the thing I wasn't thrilled about was that the teacher labeled the "best" white behavior color cards as "perfect" so since he came home he kept saying, I really wanted to be perfect today....no one is perfect...he already has a perfectionism issue, I don't need someone else making it harder to overcome that!
