Have concerns about the boys school & not sure if its "normal"

[*Efjay*]

Spoke to the school today. Glenn is on level 1 & should be around level 6. Evan is on level 15 & should be around 24.
I found Evans teacher to be rather defensive but the school has a guy in atm doing a reading recovery programme for the yr 1 kids & I spoke with him for about an hour on way to help the boys. He said not to worry to much with Glenn just yet as he will do the programme with him next year but I should be worried about Evan. He gave me some great tips that we will try & put into place over the holidays. He thinks if we can stick with it & get Evan keen to do it we should have him up to level 26 where he should be by the end of the year.

I can't believe he is on 15 & the school thinks that is ok. He is a whole year behind FFS how is that ok?

[Trillian]

I have been thinking about this today and I think that the way he feels about school is directly related to the way he is being taught. Kids will thrive if they have teachers that have passion and are determined to help the child learn, but when they totally lack those qualities it shows and it makes the kids not want to learn too. If they can be so blase about where he is at academically, then he needs to be in a new school.

[mrsmac]

Best start requires kindy kids to read at level 8 based on reading recovery levels by the end of kindy. Some of my class are still on level one sadly and they are doing extra work with a teachers aide to help with their reading and phonics.

I know which school your kids are at and have a friend who is at another school kind of in the area so i will ask her what she has heard about your school on the teachers grapevine.

[*Efjay*]

Thanks Mrs Mac. I kinda think (could be wrong) that all the small schools in my area are the same. Too small to care.
I just find it so frustrating that the teacher is obviously telling us what she thinks we want to hear. We get oh he is doing fine, he is being good. BUT then she told the reading guy that she wasn't able to do the reading assessment on him just recently as he was misbehaving too much?! So this either tells me she isn't telling us what we need to know OR she is passing the blame on to him. Surly if his behaviour was that bad we should be told. She knows of the struggles we have had with behaviour at home I have expressed my concerns he will start pushing it at school yet she tells me he is fine. BUT then it seems to be a different story for others.

The hard bit too is I can't even go well lets see how yr 3 goes, new teacher etc. because chancer are he will have her again! Some kids have her for 3 years straight! GAH I so hate we moved up here. We moved up here with the main reason being to go to this dam school!

[mrsmac]

My friend is at a 2 teacher school , sometimes 3 and she is an awesome teacher who loves the kids and works really hard. She has K-2 so has them for 3 years but I bet they love her. It would be too far for you to go though- think a major road which is popular with motorcyclists (her school is on that).
I have worked with teachers who don't want any conflict with parents and will tell them only good and believe me its a PITA being the teacher after them cause I tell it like it is and often they are shocked. This year cause I have kindy I have asked a few parents to get their child's hearing and vision tested and we are working on a few kids to find out what their needs are because as I say to the parents its better to get it sorted now before they fall too far behind.
If you like I can send you the list of outcomes we expect kindergarten to achieve by the end of the year ?

[*Efjay*]

It would be too far for you to go though- think a major road which is popular with motorcyclists (her school is on that).

Gotchya But I would actually pass that one to get to others that are further away. Assuming I have the one you are talking about right. Its about 20 mins from me. Its probably the next closest one to me apart from the one we already attend.

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