DS2 is 8, good at maths, less good at English. He has had some help, and has really improved.
I got a letter home saying that he had been selected to have special lessons in ICT once every couple of weeks as he had been identified as good with 'pooters and the maths lessons he would miss would not hold him back (because he is talented at maths)
I signed permission and thought no more
So I asked him how the lessons were
He said that his teacher has said he can't do it because his weekly spelling and tables tests aren't good enough.
THis seems unfair to me - he wouldn't be missing literacy and they don't learn tables in numeracy class, so he is being punished by not being allowed to do something he is good at, because of something else he struggles with.
The school haven't told me he isn't doing the lessons he was meant to or why.
Should I raise this with them and how?
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fletchaaarr · 08/05/2008 20:34
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