Things are a bit different this year for setting AR goals. GS10 has a long term sub, I think his regular teacher will be back around the start of the 2nd quarter. A woman he does not know came to their classroom after the STAR tests and set the goals with each kid. That was several weeks after school started. He was ready to take AR tests on the Eragon series, which would give him just over 100 points, so he bragged and got the goal of 150.
What drives me really crazy, he's supposed to log how many pages he reads each day in his AR books. The teacher said the log would be part of their grade. His teacher last year tried the same thing. I wouldn't outright tell him it was OK not to log it, I did try to change the teacher's thinking on that, in the end I told him the teacher said it was part of the grade, if he wanted the grade he had to fill it in. He didn't bother keeping the log, the teacher didn't knock down his grade, and he took more AR tests than anyone in his class.
