Can you decline this? Sounds like he's very bright and they are wasting his time with this. I'd tell them thanks, but no - your son has math under control.I am irritated at the school. I got a message from Evan's teacher that they want him to go to an after school math class for 6 weeks, starting Monday.
Now, the reason this irritates me is because Evan has an A- in math. They are basing the need for this extra help on his MAP test scores, which is that test all the schools use now, you know, teach for the test. Well, my understanding of those tests is that each time they take them, the questions a student gets are based on the last round of scores. So in some cases, the questions are about things they haven't even covered in class yet. (This has happened to him before)
We just don't think he needs it. And there are other things going on that would be difficult to work around, like him being responsible for getting his brother and sister home in the afternoons, especially since I have little RJ here at least 3 afternoons a week...I still have no vehicle and will not drag the baby out in this cold. Evan is already signed up and paid up for hunter safety classes, they start later this month and would overlap. But the biggest reason is because he is an A student.
I don't know. Maybe I'm overreacting. Obviously we want him to succeed, but I would hardly count an A- a failure.
Math here has gotten very hard in our state. We've just recently over the last 2 years joined the rest of the country with our math skills. But my husband works on it with both kids often. The school offers tutoring, but I feel like they are at school plenty enough already. Too much actually. We like our downtime.