We have decided to withdraw Haley from public school and start the full-time homeschool plan earlier than we had planned. There was a student in her class who threated to bring a gun to school to shoot her teacher. She was very upset as were we! The child basically got a "slap on the wrist" even though there has been a history of defiance, disrespect, bullying and fighting during the school year. The child will be back in the classroom after the Easter break, so Haley will NOT be there.
I had a student in my 5th-grade classroom once that did act on a threat, so it's nothing I take lightly. Fortunately, my student did not have access to weapons, but he broke another teacher's nose.
We have decided to begin a Rain Forest unit. We went to the library this afternoon and checked out bunches of books and videos about our topic. Haley and Maddie are very excited and Haley has already read a couple of the books.
After hearing a couple success stories, I decided to jump on the bandwagon with 5 math problems. I will be giving Haley the five hardest problems from her problem set each day. If she gets them all correct, she is done with math for the day. So far, it is working very well. Even if she misses one or two, she is working much more carefully and neatly.
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