Hi all,
I think I was gettting a little to big for my advocacy britches, I should have seen this coming.
As some of you may know, I approached the teacher at the beg. of December with some concerns about DD7's dispostion and developing bad attitude about school. I knew the district policy is any skip must be done by January of the school year. I basically told the teacher I thought she was misplaced in second.
The teacher went to bat for DD with the principal and they came out with a solution, not only for DD, but several others as well. Instead of being pulled out twice a week, they would be pulled out every day for a seperate LA and math program.
DD said she didn't want to skip, so I decided to go along with their plan, it seemed fair. They have gone for two weeks, and DD loves it.
We were at school tonight for a school funtion and DD's teacher approached me and told me that unfortunately, the enrichment teacher has a time conflict with a special project for the 5th graders and that they had to suspend DD's "special enrichment" for three weeks.
If I thought it would actually start back up, I wouldn't be so exasperated.
At this point, even if I wanted to begin the testing for the skip, it wouldn't be completed in time to meet the deadline.
I feel as if I am right back to square one.
Check.
Additionally, I called to get DD accepted in a higher grade writing workshop because she really wanted to participate and wasn't interested in the topics listed under her grade. The person in charge straight out said no and wouldn't accept results on grade equivalency on achievement test to make an exception. She was mildly hostile about it.
Not a good day.
I
