Still Smiling

[BklynMom]

Thanks Ahoy. Its a good reminder to keep an open mind and I feel much more able to do that today. I really appreciate your post and I know that everything will be okay either way. I see what a bright girl my daughter is.

My big problem in this current sitch is I do not trust this teacher's judgement after only knowing my daughter a few weeks.

(My sister who is a reading specialist and assistant principal does not think my daughter needs to be held back and thinks this letter is a CYA type of thing because she is reading below grade level)

Also I have an issue with the whole emphasis on reading & writing in the first grade, if I could afford to I would send her to a Waldorf school and she would be doing hippie art projects and knitting right now. But this is my issue.

That said we have a few more months to go to see how she does and if the material is reading is really too hard for her.

I feel much better about the whole thing this morning. Thank you so much Ahoy for your feedback just knowing I am not the only person out there that has gone through this is huge.