Background: Scored "clinically significant" in the following areas- Thought Problem and Attention Problems from both our assessment and Logan's teacher's assessment.
Got his progess report sent home with the following grades- Language A-, Penmanship C-, Spelling C-, Social Studies A, Math A, and Reading A-. He has been struggling at home with his math work.
At the meeting we had last week we sat down and discussed putting Logan in the CHIEF program (Children Having Improved Education and Fun) It was basically supposed to motivate Logan to do better with daily check-ins and points earned for desired behaviors. Great. Today he brings his CHIEF daily sheet home:He scored 26 points out of a total 36 points. His teacher scored him 0-Poor in all three of Logan's math areas. Then she has a note at the bottom of his sheet that reads "Had to work with Chris (the parapro) for math" So what I saw was that Logan was struggling with math and needed extra help, and because of this need for extra help he was marked down on his CHIEF sheet.
So then I open his homework folder to find FOUR math sheets for his homework. He needed extra help, the teacher reported that the parapro was working with Logan and he got 4 problems done out of 4 worksheets??!! What was the parapro doing? So now I have a total of 54 math problems to do for homework. This with an ADD kid who's been in school ALL DAY and has zero time to play or do kid things if we have to do all this homework.
I called the principal and basically said that I was very mad that Logan has all this homework after his CHIEF report came home negative and the parapro didn't help all that much. The principal totally agreed and told me not to make Logan do the homework. She said to go let him play outside. She said that it's absurd to punish this kid for his ADD issues and pile on homework in an area he is struggling in. She said she'd call in Logan's teacher and explain to her that at this point Logan cannot be held responsible for this type of workload because he has a learning disability. Jackie said that Logan will only be required to do the work that he can do... and nothing more. She said in a few months after the ADD gets treated then we could go back and modify the amount of work that is required of him.I felt much much better that I was being heard and understood. It just made me so made that Logan was trying his best and just wasn't getting any recognition for it. No wonder the kids scored borderline in the area of "Withdrawn/Depressed"
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