A 7th grade ADHD Pre-Algebra student has had a
tough week. Monday, he hurt his writing hand and it is swollen and
bruised. He is dealing with emotional issues, where his separated Dad
pays very little attention to him on visits and he does
not wish to visit him. But most depressing for this brilliant boy is
his teacher had spoken out loud in the class about his ADHD early last
week!!! This embarrassed him greatly and he still had not overcome this
crushing blow, thus he has not been doing his work. His Mom had taken
away everything: his gymnastics, his cell phone, all privileges and his
computer games. The Mom and I converse frequently and today (hopefully)
after I talked to him about his many talents and shutting out the
negative things and labels, he is back on track and he feels good about
himself again. The Mom will be emailing the principal about the
teacher’s part, in demeaning this boy about his ADHD. Rescue Your Math
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Two home school Algebra I students, who attend
a class once a week with a certified teacher, had a take home test to
turn in at their next class. The young lady had a few problems she
needed some directions to complete. The young fellow had
skipped several problems, so we returned to similar problems he had
already worked. Rescue Your Math Student Now [Paperback] http://www.amazon.com/Parents-Teachers-Guide-Rescue-Student/dp/0988316242
An 9th grade ADHD Algebra I student brought in
a four-page quiz to tutoring, which had been graded by fellow students
in an exchange of papers style!!! (Why is this teacher NOT interested
in finding out exactly what her students do NOT understand, so she can
re-teach weaknesses?) This teacher also violated ethics in that she
called the students’ names out loud and the other person had to verbally
report the scores! The teacher did NOT bother to work out or allow any
questions about these problems that were missed (that is a missed
“Teachable Moments”) – this is part of what we covered in tutoring.
Just how lazy can this teacher become – all she did was record the quiz
grades? This student’s mid-term Progress Report has him on the A – B
Honor Roll.
An 8th grade math student was here today with
her teacher “still in park” and nothing new being taught for three weeks
now. This young lady scored an “A” in Pre-Algebra last year and the
principal told her Mom there was no room in Algebra I
for her. So she was demoted with that “A” and assigned to take 8th
grade general math! This is another class with no text books and the
little work they have covered has been based on work sheets, with have
been Pre-Algebra sheets. I took today’s tutoring time to advance her in
to graphs with inequalities and solving simultaneous pairs of equations
by substitution and elimination methods. This will greatly assist her
when they finally place her in Algebra I next year, where she absolutely
should have been this year. PARENTS: DO NOT let these teachers and
principals get away with this type of sorry use of a brilliant student.
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
Two 9th grade home schooled Algebra I
students, who attend a certified teacher’s class once a week, came today
to work on their test for Monday. The young lady was much better
prepared than the guy; however, she missed several sample problems. On
the previous test, these two scored 99 and 97.
An 8th grade ADHD Pre-Algebra student was
working on the exponent rules at his tutoring session. He had a 100 on a
class work paper today. And he was quick to pick up on the new rules.
