Special Ed teacher alarmed at amount of testing as she returns to public schools after 6 years.

[AllyCat]

4. We have conferences tomorrow

For a kid I wanted to homeschool. He has shown an aptitude and interest in engineering concepts from an early age. He's in public school but he hates it. They are basically forcing reading on him and he wants to build stuff and know how things work. Hours of homework each week in reading and repetitive math. He no longer wants to read. He misses a few on a spelling test and is labelled "basic" on word work.

He's too young to test in my state. But the machinations are already in place. I'm so worried about him. The parochial school in town is reading Dick and Jane. I just want good schools and I think the teachers do too!