\tI think that this morning Bill figured out why Kaitlyn is struggling so much to learn to read in French. It\u0092s not because she\u0092s \u0093not invested\u0094 in it, like her teacher told us in a meeting. It\u0092s because she does not even know the alphabet in French. She has been going to the same school for the past three years. This is her second year in a row with the same teacher. But apparently no one bothered to make sure she knew this most basic skill… the alphabet.<\/p>\n
\tI\u0092m so angry… angry at myself for not practicing the French alphabet with her although we were busy practicing the American English alphabet. Because she has French all day every day… except Wednesdays and two mornings a week when she has English classes. I\u0092m very angry at the school and the teachers. How do you let a child sit in your classroom and not make sure she knows the freakin\u0092 alphabet? If this was the United States, I\u0092d march into the principal\u0092s office and make a stink. Demand a different teacher. But it isn\u0092t. And I won\u0092t. So instead we\u0092re entering hour three of tag-team alphabet learning. And it isn\u0092t going well. We\u0092re tag-teaming the effort because it is so frustrating that each adult can only take it for so long before your only options are to scream or to walk away. So we\u0092re opting for walking away. Although screaming is creeping up the list. Quickly. <\/p>\n
\tHomework for a first grader shouldn\u0092t be this way. It shouldn\u0092t be this hard. Or frustrating. Or endless. And it shouldn\u0092t end with the entire family in tears. Which is exactly how I predict today is going to end. Badly. Very much so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think that this morning Bill figured out why Kaitlyn is struggling so much to learn to read in French. It\u0092s not because she\u0092s \u0093not invested\u0094 in it, like her teacher told us in a meeting. It\u0092s because she does not even know the alphabet in French. She has been going to the same school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}