Hey that looks like a good report card except for the math grade. Can she go to summer school?

My oldest son is in 6th grade and he's been having trouble with math since 5th grade.  I get math...just have trouble getting what they call the "new math."  Twice as hard to get the same answer using the "new math" so I've been showing him how to do it the old school way.  I spoke with his teacher before doing so and she said she didn't care as long as he understood the concept of finding the solution to a problem.

tiff-to answer your question, I do not think she should be held back because of one bad grade in one subject.  Maybe she'll catch on before the year is over or maybe she'll get it come next year or maybe you can do the summer school thing.  Bottom line is she shouldn't be held back when she's passing everything else.  So she has a little trouble in math...who doesn't?  Doesn't mean she should have to repeat the entire grade because she isn't getting math right now.  Please. 

darn.  Made a reference to the wrong person.  Sorry, 3mnkids1.  I gotta quit doing that!

I don't get people who don't get math....

Definitely see if she can take the subject in summer school.

Also ask if they'll take gift cards to cover the $200 fee. Or see if there is any other prizes you've won that they could use....

Good luck.

I agree Tiffy!  I just wasn't one who "got" it until I got into Geometry ~ when I hit that I was in my element!  I could do it backwards and forwards!  It was just easy for me...people were amazed!

Back to the thread...I don't think I would hold my child back...I would do summer school...if I could, I would buy the math book that they just completed and get a tutor to help her a few hours each week during the summer so she can "catch up".  If she goes in behind she will never catch up.  You build on what you know in math...unfortunately, I knew and know NOTHING!  I can't help my own kids...ask Z!!!

well they said she can still pass with the one F as long as she keeps the other grades up.  she has got to keep up science and English. If they fall just a few points she is in trouble.     We are going to find a summer math program for her. Its not going to get any easier and she needs help.  I wish I could help her but I stopped being able to do that when she was in third grade... ok, maybe second. 

keeping my fingers crossed that its good for him and you.  Its hard when ya see them struggling and they just want to give up.  Atleast he is trying. Thats all I ask my daughter. Just try and do your best. I dont expect A's. It would be nice but I dont want to pressure my kids that way. good luck. let me know how it goes.

Ashelyn ended up with an 86 B this 9 weeks...but she came home with a homework paper last night and was needing my help and I couldn't help her.  She gets so mad ~ I finally got out a review book that Jimmie had when he was testing for his job and sorta figured it out.  I told her that maybe she won't fail the paper, and if she does that she needs to ask the teacher to explain it again (she was absent that day)!  I dread Middle School

an 86 is a C here. Thats another thing that makes it so hard for mine. They are getting the same grades here that they did in FL but here its failing.

An 86 is a C in Middle School and High School so next year she is in trouble!

Sweety, he's been talking about that dance non-stop.  He said they played 5 slow songs this time instead of the regular 3 which made him happy and nervous.  Happy to be slow dancing with Aderra, but nervous because the ex(we'll call her Sally) was glaring at them while fighting with her own date.

A little background on Psycho Sally-we moved for a short while back in 2007 before settling in here.  Before we'd moved, she broke up(if you wanna even call it that)w/son and started liking his best friend.  Son was 10 so he didn't care, really.  His feelings were a little hurt but it's not like they had some kind of love affair.  They were only 10 LOL  Anyways, when we moved back, he started hanging out at school with this little sweety named Aderra.  I love her to bits!  She's a typical 11 year old girl...not into having a "boyfriend."  She and my son get along really well and are inseperarable.  She likes football, baseball, skateboarding and my son loves that.

Son and Aderra always get a group of their friends together and meet up at the dance.  His guy friends and her girl friends.  They dance, get pics taken, hang out, eat, and just have fun.  Well, Sally hates it.  I mean really hates it.  She will glare at my son and Aderra and all of the others.  Well, last dance in Nov. 2007, she cornered Aderra in the bathroom and told her to stay away from my son.  Aderra went running out of the bathroom with Psycho Sally running after her.  Psycho Sally made a huge scene and threatened to whoop little Aderra.  It was a mess.  When I found out I was like huh?  The girl's 11!!  Way too young to be acting that way and shouldn't be acting like that, period. 

So I told son maybe Sally feels left out and he should invite her to hang out with all of them.  He did.  She flipped again last night after seeing son and Aderra dancing.  I told son to just stay away from her.  I'm going to have a talk with him later on tonight about it.  I don't want him being mean to her but I don't want him hanging out so much with her.  They're 11 years old, not 15, 16, etc.  I'm trying to be understanding.  I'm also trying to figure out how to make my son understand that her behavior is a little extreme, but not to ostracize her completely.  I mean, even though I am jokingly calling her Psycho Sally, she really is just a little girl and she doesn't need to be made to feel like a freak.  My son said that when she would call him her mom would yell, "Get off the phone you little biatch!" so that speaks volumes in itself about why she acts the way she does.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!! 

Yeah, it definately concerns me.  I remember being somewhat like that in my younger days with hubby.  OK, maybe a lot like that    But you get old or ya grow up and you realize how silly or stupid you were.  It makes me cringe cuz she's still SO young.  And my son isn't interested in girls like that.  It'll happen soon enough I know, but right now he's into sports and BB guns, not hooking up and being exclusive.  He's only 11 for goodness sakes LOL  He did, however call Aderra his girl and said she had real nice hair so I could be wrong 
*putting back on my rose-colored blinders!*


And I hate this thread!!  I've been admitting poo left and right since coming in here!