Reflective Essay: My Reading Program In Middle School

I remember sitting in my room talking to my mom when the phone rang. My mom answered it and was caught off-guard when they stated who they were and she responded with “Oh yes hello, this is Mrs. Farbman”. As she said that she started walking out of my room and into her own, which is right next to mine, and the walls aren’t that thick. I heard her getting very upset and almost fighting with the person on the other side of the phone. Soon it went silent for a couple of minutes on the other side of the wall. There was a sound of her door opening back up she came back into my room acting a little off. “Ever since you started middle school do you think the reading program has improved you?” she asked me now catching me off-guard. “Ever since I started this program in middle school I don’t really think its been doing much, I don’t think I belong in this group of people.” My mom then informed that is exactly what the school thinks as well do to my reading test grades and my overall academic grades.
My mom looked very stressed and very unhappy but I …show more content…
They offered to change it to a resource room class, which is like a study hall with a teacher always there to help. This would also give me more benefits as to go into a separate room while I take tests in ever subject and it would give me extended time on the tests if needed. Although that sounds very helpful I really didn’t think that is what I needed and my mom understood that even though she thought that would be perfect and what I needed. I would also need to take the disability exam and see if I am eligible for getting resource room and considering I exceeded on many of the past disability exams my fourteen-year-old self though it would just be a waste of