I really wanted ds to try school and give it his -well, our - best shot. I was really positive about it. He had two days, nothing bad happened, fine, he cried somewhat at first but soon settled. I am sure he will like it.
Then today I collected him and he told me something that really upset me. He seemed Ok about it - he just accepted it. But it almost made me cry and I feel angry about it.
What happened was, well he struggles hard with writing and reading. But he has just started to learn to draw - he;s getting confident in it and I always say, 'wow, how lovely,' as he does brill pictures and has a fab imagination.
I said what did you do today, tell me something, I want to hear all about it. He said he hadn't done any writing today - I said, Ok, well you did a lot yesterday so that's Ok. He then said he drew a picture, but the teacher had made him rub it out. I said 'why did she ask you to rub it out?' and he said, 'Because she didn't knew I drawed a picture, she didn't tell me to'.
He said it was a transformer, he loves them and gets very excited about them - but she made him rub out his drawing because she hadn't asked him to do one??
Sorry if I sound ridiculous but this is something that goes against everything I believe re encouraging a child to creata, to have confidence, to learn - i mean fgs. It seems like sacrilege tbh after all my efforts to get him to draw over the summer. Do they want him to have fine motor skills or not?
Grrrrr