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PoindexterOglethorpe

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12. Sounds like you have a wonderful and sensible son.

Thu May 14, 2020, 10:40 PM

May 2020

I can only hope he can get through this.

What you are experiencing is the huge drawback of a school system that expects all students to learn everything in lockstep.

When my son was in first grade he was essentially held back because he was having trouble learning to read, although his math skills were pretty impressive for that age. He didn't actually learn to read until half way through second grade, when he was put into a special reading program, and it finally clicked. Meanwhile, all the kids who caught on to the reading got to advance, while he was stuck doing math he'd figured out two years earlier. Arrrghhh!

Hang in there. Your son is very smart and will do well, I'm sure.

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