In their wisdom, dd's school have targeted her with making 4 sub levels of progress this year
When she was given her targets at the beginning of the year she was told they were aspirational and just to do her best
In her mind she's been set up to fail -she's got no hope of achieving these targets in some of the subjects, particularly geography and history as the targets were set based on a general knowledge quiz in that subject at the start of the year which has no bearing on the curriculum
She now has stress levels through the roof and every day is a battle, her sleeping and eating are all over the place -she's always been an anxious child but I've never seen her this bad
I've obviously spoken to school and the doctors and they set that setting lower targets sets a ceiling for expectation and they stop trying once they have achieved the target
Why can't they see that for some children, setting too high targets has a horrible effect
Dd starts her GCSEs in September and at the moment i'm worried
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Emochild · 24/05/2015 09:24
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