The report cards arrive on St. Patrick's Day...lucky or not?

Both Taylor and Liam received their report cards today.

And guess what? I didn't want to kill either of them.

Taylor greatly improved in Math (3 Excellents, 1 proficient) but I was slightly disappointed in her Language Arts (4 excellent, 1 proficient and 1 insufficient plus and inconsistent for effort.) Insufficient, folks. That equals a D. A D. I wasn't very happy but as I was reading it out loud she said "But I did that." Whinge, whinge. She really did whinge. I didn't get mad and I didn't get mad about the 2 insufficients in Social Studies. I wasn't very happy about her refusing to take responsibilty for those bad marks but I did not yell. This is a big thing in my house as I am a yeller, something I have mentioned often. I said to her "I am not getting mad at you, Taylor, but obviously you and Mr. H. have different opinions on what you are doing or not doing. We will talk to him about it at the interview." I don't even want to go, she says. No of course she doesn't. This is what drives me crazy about Taylor...nothing is ever her fault, so there is no point in her accepting that she needs to try harder.

But, here, I didn't yell! No worries, I've already given myself a wee pat on the back.

And then there's Liam. I was quite happy about his report card as I was expecting it to be really bad. His Language Arts improved, math remarks were great, no marks of excellence in math though, which is disappointing as it is his strength. For the most part he had alot of proficients, which would be equal to a B.

The only problem was I have talked to the principal and the resource teacher at St. B's (his old school, Taylor's current one) about him coming back as he is very unhappy at the new school. I said how badly he was doing in class and how miserable he was. Well, he's still miserable but the marks are pretty good. So now I don't know what to do. St. B's is willing to take him back, but I have no guarantee of an aide even being in his class, whereas at the other school there are 2 aides in his class. And being in a class of 14 kids who all have some sort of learning disability is surely much easier than being in a class of 20+ kids with no significant problems, not to mention somewhat of a confidence booster when they are doing math and science, subjects he enjoys and does well in. I just don't know. Unhappy and doing ok or happy and struggling. Sometimes it is hard to know what is best. Ultimately, I know his progress in school is the most important thing, but shouldn't emotions matter too? If he continues to be miserable won't his schoolwork suffer? It's going to require a lot of thinking. I meet with his teacher on Tuesday, so I'll see what she has to say.