K and I spoke to Mr. Hagerty from WPS about our concerns that Chris was not closing the achievement gap. We think that he has very little reading confidence because, when he has homework that involves reading more than a paragraph, he'll tell us that he just can't do it.
Mr. H's council was that he thinks the standardized test he took a month ago will show that C is reading closer to grade level and that he's seen real progress in the classroom. We must have patience. His gut feeling is that C won't be ready to mainstream until 10th grade.
We told him that C has very little homework. Many nights he has none and others he'll have only 5-10 mins. We think that homework could make him more self directed and not so dependent on support.
Mr. H was surprised that he had so little homework and lamented that we hadn't raised this sooner. He thinks this would be easy to tweak and, if we see the same thing happening next year, we should raise it early .
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