Hindsight is 20/20...

Back to more serious things....... David. Well, it is funny how things go. I always make my mind up immediately about how I think things should be, and can't imagine them otherwise...then I ask for Dan's opinion and I get a totally different perspective. I really do think that, hindsight being 20/20, David would've been SO much better off had we started him a year behind where we did. Well, since he has been at the school for 2 years now, we don't really have the luxury of putting him wherever we please....... I thought for sure I could 'save' him by pulling him out and homeschooling, tutoring for a year, and then putting him right back into 5th grade again.... it wouldn't seem like a failure, really.... I think (after much discussion/pondering/etc) that we might actually be doing him a disservice by bringing him home. I am sure it would help him academically to tutor here for a year, and then do 5th grade again...... but I think we would be perpetuating some really bad habits he has. We are thinking his main 'problems' are not that he isn't able to do the work, but that he happens to be one of the most unorganized people we have met. His papers are always oozing out of his folders and desk, he loses books and school work, he often forgets to bring important things (assignments due TOMORROW) home.. etc. It is very frustrating for me (as a parent who wants to help him excel) when he doesn't even bring home the things he needs help with. SIGH........ anyway, we will meet with his teacher next Tuesday, and we will see if the 3 of us can come up with a good plan. IF we decide that he should be a grade behind though, I will let him finish out this year, and bring him home for next year. Then, I will start him in sixth grade following that........ who knows. I am sure this plan will change again too... :)