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cassblonde:
Quote from: Zaphod Beeblebrox on 2009 June 09, 17:03:04
In my day, if you received quite a few Fs on your report card, you were held back, but that's no longer true. It has more to do with schools trying to push kids ahead even though they're barely grasping what they're learning because of the No Child Left Behind Act.
I have to comment here as I think No Child Left Behind is American and I am in Canada. My son got all Rs(It's the new F ::)) on his first grade one report card. I met with my school's principal and my son's teacher about holding him back to let him have another stab at grade one since he just wasn't absorbing the information. I was told then that the main reason they push kids ahead(in Canada anyway) is due to social reasons rather than academic ones. I thought that was pretty lame but I would have had to fight my regional board of education to get them to hold him back so I let them put him up with his classmates.
In my school system if your child is identified as learning delayed they will set up an individual education plan so although he is in with his same age classmates he's being taught at his level and being given tools to learn how to learn and work with the faulting wiring in his head rather than trying to learn in a way he is failing at. Not the best solution but it works and he seems happy to go to school even though he is not quite as far along in some areas as his classmates.
rohina:
This system works well for the kids who are average or "delayed", but sucks donkey balls for the bright ones.
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
It sucks for all involved, truly. The only program they had for "gifted" kids when I was a wee lass was something called PACE, and I was a part of it for only a short amount of time before I was kicked out due to my non-religious family (something about "being involved in the community" was included in the requirements for being a member). The same thing happened to me with National Junior Honor Society and National Honor Society (couldn't even begin to join those because I wasn't "involved in the community"). Advanced classes at my high school were also a joke, and since we were a very small school of about 200, if a class in which you wanted to enroll had less than 2 kids in it, that class was canned.
I know all about IEPs. We have them in America, too. All three of my kids have one (my oldest has ADHD and a speech impediment, my middle child has a chromosome disorder which makes him moderately retarded, and my youngest also has ADHD and a speech impediment), and something I've noticed in this school corporation is that they don't even bother to follow the ones they write up and have you sign. Example: my oldest son's IEP states that because of his disorders, he must have an assistant help him with his regular classwork (and no one helps him at this school, but he received help at previous schools with the same IEP), and as requested by his doctor, he needs to complete his homework at school because his medication wears off around 4pm, and he starts to get too irritable and tired to concentrate (another thing they don't do). I help him with what I can (I can't help him with this newfangled math; it was never my favorite subject in any case), but I can't control what those dimwits do with him at school. Hell, he has asthma that's aggravated by the outdoors, so he's not supposed to go outside for recess, but they ignore the doctor's orders and still send him out anyway.
Eh, I know they push kids along because of social reasons (just like they don't tend to skip smarter kids ahead several grades anymore because they aren't "emotionally" ready), but the desire to look successful and receive funding also pushes kids along who shouldn't be (as was told to me by a friend of mine in the Minneapolis urban school corporation).
Stitches:
Quote from: Zaphod Beeblebrox on 2009 June 10, 17:52:17
The only program they had for "gifted" kids when I was a wee lass was something called PACE, and I was a part of it for only a short amount of time before I was kicked out due to my non-religious family (something about "being involved in the community" was included in the requirements for being a member). The same thing happened to me with National Junior Honor Society and National Honor Society (couldn't even begin to join those because I wasn't "involved in the community").
I am confused as to why not being religious kept you from being involved in the community? While it is true that many societies are religious in nature, they do not require you to be religious to help.
Jelenedra:
Sounds like some crazy Bible School "Special Program." Or Zaphod lived in some crazy Mormon commune.
Only GT class I've ever heard of endorsing community involvement was AP classes, and that was because they want you to get tons of scholarships. It wasn't enforced either, but they would help you if you were trying for something Camp Fire or Scouts related. Sister got her Wohelo thanks to her AP coach.
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