I am now paying in excess of $16500.00 per year for my sons private school education when his teacher at Trickum Middle (whose husband is a minister) told her class that democrats were not good christians and were doomed to hell (paraphrased). We are republicans and Christians just not Right-winged Jihadists. Soon after, at our first session with his teachers (within the first 9 weeks) we were informed that he was probably going to fail the 7th grade because he was likely unable to pass the Gateway (since it is practiced constantly during the year, I can't possibly imagine anyone failing). This was Ironic since we had to reschedule because he was in the top 10 in spelling of the entire school and was in the finals. He has done this 3 years in a row, as well as being the top 10 in geography. He was 11 and some of his his skills tested him at the 3rd year level in college. The problem is that he has a learning disability they would not recognize and did not want to deal with. My wife is an educational professional with 15+ years working in higher education, we were both totally dumbfounded at this highly politically and socially charged attitude. My son is truly the child that the Parkview cluster CHOSE to leave behind.
My friend's daughter failed the Gateway twice. She was sent to summer school for 3 weeks where she took 7th grade math in the AM and 8th grade math in the PM.
She passed the test.
Unfortunately, testing shows that her math skills are at a high 4th grade level.
I would like to know how she passed the Gateway and how it was expected that she would do 7th and 8th grade maths at the same time especially when she lacks the foundational skills to do either?