Comments on: You Do the Math

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:24:46 +0000

I can’t do Math either and I have Dyscalculia and other learning disabilities. But your an awesome mother. Keep up the good work!

By: Noan

Noan — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:34:39 +0000

I work at a school in which every child enrolled has an IEP and you are they type of parent we dream of.

By: Jaida

Jaida — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:02:12 +0000

You kind of just nailed how I feel about academic education in general for my son. It’s not that I don’t want him to learn, and it’s not that I don’t expect him to be an active, contributing member of his community when he’s grown. But I feel like we will work so hard at so many different things, I want to be realistic about what he needs to succeed in HIS life. And I feel like higher level math ain’t it.

Please keep us posted. You’re so brave and such an amazing advocate for Sophie…know that there are some of us out here taking courage from you and learning so much along the way.

By: teeps

teeps — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:18:01 +0000

Amy, can I edit the editor’s first sentence?

I am considering doing something very brave on Thursday afternoon.

Public education pioneer John Dewey, who will be right there with you on Thursday afternoon, said: “How one person’s abilities compare in quantity with those of another is none of the teacher’s business. It is irrelevant to his work. What is required is that every individual shall have opportunities to employ his own powers in activities that have meaning. Mind, individual method, originality (these are convertible terms) signify the quality of purposive or directed action.”

Courage, woman!

(I let Abbie — age 17 and a senior who struggled through honors pre-caclulus last year — drop math from her schedule entirely this year. She hasn’t cried once over homework at the dinner table since school began.)

By: Yolande

Yolande — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:05:05 +0000

Oh Amy, Sophie is so lucky to have you as a mom.