Re: How to deal with stress?


"cshenk" <cshenk1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Orlando Enrique Fiol" wrote
Julie Bove wrote


Yes, it's obviously much better to stick a shy child in stigmatized
special ed
where she's clearly not learning well, not making many friends outside of
special ed and falling through the school's cracks.

Um, Orlando. The situation is radically different today. Angela for
example isnt in special classes. She may be like me when young, getting
just some special tutoring to help address an issue. That is now called
'special ed' sometimes. I got a special class twice a week. By today's
standards, I was in special ed.

That's right. She is taking a class that helps with her homework as opposed
to something more fun like choir or drama. I'm sure she would rather take a
fun class, and perhaps she can do that come 9th grade. But for 7th and 8th,
it has strongly been suggested that she take this.

The math tutor was also strongly suggested. She doesn't qualify for special
ed in math. I've been told in order to qualify for that, she needs to be 2
grade levels behind. She isn't. She can actually do that math. She's just
very slow at it. The tutor is helping her with some tips and tricks to get
her to be able to think things through and retrieve the information more
quickly. Something I am unable to do.

Frankly you are imputing too much of your own feelings on Julie this time.
What I percieve is Julie is ensuring her child learns best what she enjoys
the most while also keeping up with the rest and not letting it slide.
She has Angela's mind on learning even if what she is learning isn't quite
what you would wish. Thats ok. Julie knows Angela best. She's working
with her daughter which will make all the world of difference in how she
adapts.

Yes. As for the dance, I see that it is good for her in so many ways. She
is making lots of new friends. Being forced to interact with new adults.
She is very shy and reticient to talk to strangers. But she has many
different dance teachers and at times, new substutute teachers. It is also
something she is very good at and can see positive results. She is perhaps
not as good as some of the other kids in some styles of dance, but that
gives her incentive to work harder. She really excells at tap though.

Flip your world view for a moment. Now you aren't the child but the
parent doing your best. You are beating on Julie for doiung this, and by
inferenance on me for my daughter Charlotte who doesn't sound that far off
Angela.

Thanks!


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