u/Full-Philosophy1384

We leave middle of June for Paris. 1 parent and 2 kids. I have both an Airbnb ( st Germain des pres) booked and a hotel (6th arr, but closer to Montparnasse). I’m torn on which one to keep. Both come up to around the same price so I won’t be saving. But I have been reading how Airbnb can be unreliable with last minute cancellation with the 90 day renting out rule. And with kids in tow this stresses me. Especially if I had to book something very last minute, it would be very expensive. The Airbnb is the perfect location and exactly where we want to be, but I’m nervous about a possible cancellation. Are most people have good experience with Airbnb? Am I worrying about nothing? Location is the biggest factor in my decision making but just need reassurance that the Airbnb will probably be fine.

Teachers/parents,

Help me with how to approach this. I do not want to have a tag of war with my child’s school so I want to be careful in how I address this without any blaming, labeling sounding confrontational etc.

I want to say, we are are an English speaking family, child goes to a full French school, since grade 1. This is our second full year in a French school. Most kids start this school in kindergarten (2 years) worth of French. So he’s basically 2 years behind in French vocabulary compared to the other kids. This is just to show you how much work he’s put in and he can read, write and speak fluently for his age/grade considering how late in the game we came in.

My child is in lower elementary, grade 2. We went from he’s very bored in my class. He grasps his material very quickly and easily. Finishes his work in literally minutes of starting and get everything correct. Super smart kid. Can do math 2-3 grades above his grade level. Reading is probably around the same 2 grades above grade level. Teacher personally suggesting he should get a gifted assessment so he can have an IEP tailored to his learning abilities. This was back in November. Meeting set up with guidance/support, teacher an principal to address this. Finished that term with As

Since then, starting around January, several emails about his lack of focus, lack or engagement and constantly being distracted or doing the distraction. Wanting to play, talk to friends all the time, constant drawing and doing anything else but listening and focusing. As a result he’s not following instructions on how to do the work, still doing it but making silly mistakes that could have been avoided if he was listening and engaged. Currently siting on Bs and a random Cs.

That scheduled meeting comes up, and it’s a whole different tune, about how we need to fix his attention and focus. How they need to implement certain strategies to help, etc. nothing is mentioned about any academic enrichment, focusing on more challenging work etc? Now the focus is on fixing his lack of attention. Even suggesting I should speak to a Dr lol. What??

Am I wrong to feel some kind of way. The content of the meeting completely took me off guard cause I was expecting the complete opposite, so I sat there dumbfounded, didn’t say much and said I need to go home and process what was talked about first. I didn’t not want to speak based purely out of emotion.

We have known he’s smart, even as a toddler we knew it, and that was one of my biggest concerns when starting school. That I hope he won’t be bored and they label him as lacking focus an attention. This was one of the reasons we switched to a French school. To challenge him. He was already ready a grade level while in preschool/kindergarten
I honestly think he needs more challenging work. I think this is why we had no issue in grade 1. Everything was new, the language was hard and challenging etc. now that he’s grasped that, the content of the work is still the same, not challenging enough. If he was more challenged I bet you he won’t finish his work in 5 mins and then want to start bugging his friends and talking and playing.