What challenges has your elementary school child faced this year?

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Have they overcome them? Or are they still working towards thier goal?

My son this year has still struggled with being very talkative in class. For some reason he see's school as a social hour instead of a time for learning. We are still working with him and his teacher has been very understanding and she too is working with him everyday.

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I don't know but did any of the parents speak with the principal. In case like this the parents of the children if not all a few of them should have gotten to gether and have a talk with principal stating there concerns and what they would like to have. a principal could hire one sub for the the entire time the teacher is absent. But when no one speaks up then things like this happens, even one parent and the pta President could have spoken with the Principal or ask to be invited to school leadership team meeting and then bring up the matter there or have the Pta President bring it up.

My Daughter's kinder teacher found out that she had breast cancer. Instead of installing a teacher for her class the rest of the year, they just had numerous substitutes take over her class. She had 6 subs for the rest of the year. When we got her last report card, she did very well, but still had numerous s's. I feel that even though she might have had some issues, he biggest issue was not having an appropriate teacher for the remainder of the school year. I am truely sympathetic for her teacher, but come on.

I also had this problem with my son this year. (must be a boy thing) We also had an understanding teacher and worked with us on a rewards program for the days he paid attention. I do hope all this work pays off in 1st grade.

Their challenges consist of not allowing enough time to study for tests.

In first grade my daughter's biggest challenge was a child who insisted on being her friend that she had nothing in common with. His "in your face" approach, lack of friendship making skills and stubborn resistance to her telling him "No, I don't want to play" resulted in him physically yanking on her, yelling in her face and other friends stepping in to defend her. I let the teacher and Director know about it and they did their best to oversee the situation when they were present.
I was aware that the parents had been called in for discussions about conflicts their son had with other students. I just became more physically present at the school and he got the message that she was not to be messed with. We were happy to see the school year end and hope that there will be a shift in classmates for the next year.
However, I am trying to help her build skills for handling such situations as there always seems to be one person like that in every group.

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