We had this same experience in a parochial school - we are only getting the
help our daughter needs through the public school district and they are
trying everything to help her feel confident in herself and keeping us up to
date with her progress. I believe it is not just a "public vs. private"
issue we have to honor roll students who succeeded in private school but
they couldn't wouldn't help our daughter who has a learning disability. The
parent needs to be involved.
----- Original Message -----
From: "cobcatco" <cobcatco@...>
To: <dyslexiaclub@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:28 PM
Subject: [Dyslexia Club] VENTING


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> 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"???
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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"???
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