The Never Predictable Twins

Twins.  They are amazing awesome and complex creatures.  Rarely do I have issues with both twins at the same time.  Rather, without any exchanges of words or motions (that I see or hear) they are able to tag team up on parents and adults alike. 

It was just this week, my friend had stop over for a little conversation.  During this conversation, we were discussing my son and his attitude at school.  For months it seemed that I couldn't get him to do his own work at school.  He was busy looking at other people's work and recording it as his own.  He thought it was great to be the funny guy.  He wants the easy way out.   My friend and I discussed that maybe he wasn't maturing enough or just capable of being promoted to the third grade.  Honestly, I'm afraid of him being in third grade because there is multiplication and division.... there is a lot more reading.  I don't know how he'd do or if it would be too overwhelming.

This year has been my daughter's best year of school.  Her first report card contained no 0's or 1's.  Her past ones had several of each.  She likes school more and seems to be making some friendships.  She is still struggling but up until yesterday, I had felt like she was making progress.

Then.... it was parent teacher conferences.  My opinion of how the twins were doing completely flipped flopped.  It was like I walked into each other's classrooms. My daughter has made little progress.  However, it's some growth, but no where close to where the teacher needs it to be.  My daughter has become a professional avoidance director.  She is able to manipulate the situation using several techniques to avoid doing work.  Essentially her reading scores are so low that it's now affecting all areas of learning but she refuses to do any reading on her own.

I walked into my son's room.  I was prepared to be crushed again.  However, he is closing the gaps in his learning!  So much so, he had to exit math intervention. He also should have exited reading intervention, however his teacher argued with his new glasses, maturity, and how close he is... that another session might complete the gap.  Math is also so dependent on reading that she thinks this last boast will shoot him up.

Like wow.  I'm stunned.  Is this the kid that I thought shouldn't go to the 3rd grade.  Ironically, my daughter's teacher was asking me how I felt about her not going on to the 3rd grade.  Twins.  Always full of surprises.