Do any of you ever get soooooooooo frustrated that the goal in school
(public anyways)is for our children to achieve "minimum requirement"
versus "maximum potential"???

Last year my husband and I had to enroll our daughter into public
school at the beginning of her second grade year. Of course they had
to do a "preliminary" test to see if she was "on task" which she
failed. The test was a joke, not comprehesive at all nor hardly a
tool that could be used as representative of her knowledge base.

Anywaysssss, they recommended holding her back a year (which I
refused to allow happen), they refused to do testing for dyslexia (my
sister was dyslexic and I had growing suspicions) which I had to get
done on my own from an outside source.

It came back, sure enough, she is dyslexic. However, it also
revealed that she has great compensentory skills in deductive logic,
etc. Since she has been in school she's made A's & B's and only
missed one question on the state standardized test. BUT this is at
the cost of NEVER having recess (this is the only time she can go to
dyslexia class - which they don't want her in because she isn't
failing) and at having to do at least 2 HOURS of homework EVERY NIGHT.

They refuse any modfications at all. I guess I'm just complaining.
I guess I should be happy she's not failing. It's just sooo
aggravating. I know she'll never get to participate in gifted &
talented classes because she could never complete the tasks in
a "timely" manner yet she understands concepts that absolutely blow
my mind. Things like pupil dilation, knowing that a single digit
number multiplied by 9 is always one less than the number you're
multiplying by in the ten's place plus a number in the one's to get a
sum of 9, etc.

Anybody out there feel the same??? I feel like my kid is missin' out
just because she's "meeting the standard" and havin' a pretty crappy
time of it as well along th' way!

And, in reference to siva's message earlier: "Every dyslexic is
unique from each other; do not make him think like the other common
people, make him think the way he thinks (the way a genius thinks)."
Can I tell you something that is sooooo ironic??? The very first
reading assignment my daughter was given in public school was "The
magic schoolbus and the beehive" it was all about "drone" bees and
the like! HA! How's that for teaching "independent thought"???