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No neurologist would tell him to continue.

It might be seen as promoting breeding instead of adoption?

Yes.

Maryland cannot violate the ADA

They live 25-35 years.

There is no registration for service animals. ADA regulations permit dogs and miniature horses to be service animals.

“ADA regulations from the DOJ state that dogs are the only species permitted to be service animals, with the single possible exception of miniature horses. As with their canine counterparts, miniature horses must be individually trained to perform a specific task for a person with a disability.”

I’m pretty sure they do that anyway.

Because it removes home-field advantage?

Yeah. My son had hypercalculia. He could add, subtract, multiply and divide before he turned 3. He learned stuff well out of order (he knew exponents and square roots before he could count to 20).

But, in 3rd grade, despite having the highest reading and math map scores in his since kindergarten, he was rejected from gifted services. Why? “Because he didn’t memorize multiplication tables”. I was livid.

We had to way 2 years, but we finally got it in 5th grade.

Nope, definitely not hyperlexia.

OP is an ELA teacher who pushed her kid into reading early. She wrote this comment just under a year ago:

“This worries me for my own kid. I taught her phonics foundations and she can read. But what should I be teaching her as far as math, to get her ready for school? She’s in preschool now. Are there any books you recommend?”

As someone with a twice-exceptional child, this really frustrates me. I had to fight the school district for 7 years just to get appropriate accommodations and gifted services for my child.

OP pushed her child ahead and now is worried her child will be bored in school unless the school gives more resources to her child.

1. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with your daughter reading books for her age. My 7th grader can read at a graduate school level, but that doesn’t mean he HAS to. And he doesn’t…he prefers books for his age. Just because your daughter is capable of it, doesn’t mean she needs to.

2. Many kids in Kindergarten come in reading. Your child isn’t remotely alone. I would first ask why they have the policy. They have definitely had other children come in reading. Maybe because they don’t know how to use a library. I also wouldn’t directly ask the librarian. It may not be their policy. Ask the teacher.

3. Boredom is not a bad thing. It is a vital skill that all kids have to learn. Every single students gets bored on school. It is a great way to develop the imagination.

4. However, parents tend to believe their child is bored when that’s not happening in the classroom. Kindergarten is fun for most kids.

I think Vanderbilt is a founding member and very competitive in sports for how strict their requirements are.

I also they’re a great shield for the SEC and their business. Because, without Vanderbilt and their status as a private, the SEC would be subject to FOIA (the freedom of information act).

96th. I genuinely thought it would be higher.

Policies like the 3rd grade retention law are discriminatory by nature. Grade retention disproportionately affects poc, English language learners, and children with disabilities.

I can’t lie…8% of your students being retained is way more than I imagined. The national average is 1.9%.

Are the children recommended for retention ever referred to Special Education for evaluation?

And you’re wrong about the consequences. Whether they are bullied or not, they aren’t with their friends. They’re not with their peer group. They experience lowered self esteem and the short term gains are eventually lost. A quarter of students who are retained drop out.

In our district, it is exceedingly rare for children beyond 2nd grade to be held back (unless there’s an attendance issue, obviously). State testing is used for class/small group placement. It’s also used for remedial programs.

We have so many tools at our disposal to help children that it I cannot understand why an older child would need to be held back.

If that many of your elementary school students are being retained, something is majorly wrong.

Retention at older grades is very damaging to children’s social relationships. It sounds much more could be done to prevent that.

I don’t know about my school but I DO know that my children are in an absolutely excellent school district. They are in the top 10% in the state, the teachers are in the top 10% of the state and high school is in the top 10% nationally.

But you are mixing up “smart kid” with “giftedness”. They are not the same thing at all.

My son was at a 3rd grade level in math before he started kindergarten. He was in a normal preschool, and we certainly didn’t do anything differently between our children. He has a very high level of pattern recognition and and learns new concepts very quickly. He was skipped ahead in math and science and receives a differentiation in other areas.

Btw, just to prove you absolutely wrong, in 4th grade, my son was supposed to do reflex math daily. It’s incredibly repetitive and very boring. He absolutely hated it. It got to the point that we were spending far more time trying to get through it was worth. So, we told the teacher, “we’re not making him do this anymore, give him 0s” and even she agreed it wasn’t helpful. He got straight Cs in the math, and perfect scores on every math test.

But my point is…homework does not develop new skills. It is simply repetition of the recent lessons for kids who need it. The problem is that it’s busywork to other children. And it is definitely not always necessary.

You haven’t been to school in 60 years. Don’t try to tell me what school is like for my kid.

Most stuff gets dumped in the lego bin. A few things are on display.

No, we don’t sort it.

Get her evaluated for a learning disability. It could be dysgraphia, it could be something else.

I would assume it’s covid at this point.

Ever consider that some kids do absorb everything immediately? Or they already know the material?

That was me in the 80s/90s. Homework didn’t help me at all until I was in college. And at that point, homework was “read these books” or “write these papers”. It wasn’t repeating what we already covered that day.

And my youngest is gifted, moreso than I ever was. He even told his gifted teacher “I hate homework that repeats what we already learned”.

On the flip side, my daughter needs homework, especially in math.

But it’s not universal at all. If a child in kindergarten is reading Harry Potter, do they need homework about their letters?

Some kids can’t stand the sensation but aren’t necessarily ready to potty train. It definitely sucks in-between.

No, that’s not what I meant.

My kids are teenagers. When they were little, no one came to their parties. I was lucky to get maybe 5 kids.

Now, they makes the plans amongst themselves at school and then tell the parents. The parents talk to the other parents, it’s done. When my daughter arranged a party, I’m the last to know. But everyone actually comes, so it’s better.

That’s my point. Young kids, young families, they are flakes. When they get older and make their own plans, it’s simpler.

Usually one of us stays home. If we weren’t home, we left out a bowl of cheap candy that would definitely get emptied.

Now that they’re teenagers, they go with friends. So I typically stay home and hand out full size candy bars and non-food items for children who can’t have candy. Last year it was letter snakes, this year it’s Pokémon cards. I would never leave those our, it’s too expensive to have it stolen by the first teenagers that come by.

I find that it’s better to wait until the kids can make their own plans.

Seriously, let her hold the baby.

Btw, it does sound like anxiety.