Rosemont Elementary School

Teachers abilities need to be reassessed in the school. My grandson has been in this school now for 3 years and I am not pleased with what I have seen any of the years. He comes home with papers graded improperly. If something is wrong, its marked right, which I'm not sure how a child is supposed to learn the correct way if answers are wrong but marked right. He comes home with a math paper that also is colored and I myself can't comprehend whether its being graded on the ability to do math or coloring. Again I have seen several math problems wrong on the math paper but has had a comment at the top of the page stating graded on completion. If your giving a paper with math then it should be grade on correct answers. I hear more from my grandson who mind you is 7 years old, how much time he spends on computers doing work, rather than the teacher being in front of the classroom and actually teaching a lesson with full attention of the students. Yet when a child has issues teachers automatically want to blame everything on ADHD. It's time we stop putting the blame on kids not paying attention and put teachers back in the front of the classroom and teaching. Also I see my grandson coming home from school with a book from the library on pokemon cartoons and such. When I went to school the library was sectioned off according to the age level of the child. Teachers/Librarian made sure the book a child signed out was reading appropriate for the child. It seems more work is brought home for children to complete then they actually do while in school. Comments are made on progress/report cards that a child should be dong this or that at home. Children are for the most part in school 6 1/2 hours of the day to learn not spend 6 1/2 at home after getting out of school doing homework, because the child is having difficulties. I myself have been to several parent/teacher conferences and voiced concern about dyslexia, only to be told its not unusual for a young child to write things backwards, but at the same time have something marked wrong because it is. If its concerning enough for a parent to say something to the teacher then maybe it should be important enough for a teacher to not just say oh its not something that is unusual then give the child points off on a paper for it. We are supposed to be a Society that leaves no child behind in a school system, instead the curriculums are based on we have to cover so much within the school year. How about making sure that the comprehension of each lesson taught is reached fully with the students before moving on to something else. Maybe then the comprehensive test scores would be higher than they are nationwide. Scores arent based on how quick they do it but how many are right vs. wrong. Technology is ok but a blackboard in the classroom with teachers in front of it that actually care about a student learning is much more efficient.