Had to light a fire under the MS princip
Find a Conversation
| Fri, 08-18-2006 - 12:00pm |
At the end of the school yr last yr dh & I insisted we have a meeting with the MS staff and Kyle's current IEP team. They didn't want to do it but we got it done. The MS has never had a mainstreamed AS student before. We covered all of ds's needs. So school starts Monday. We've emailed the principal and the sped. teacher. I found out they hired the aide but that's all they've done. So I called the principal this morning and its like he doesn't remember anything from the meeting last fall. He had no instuctions for the aide. He said he doesn't know Kyle or what he needs. He thought it was good enough that he hired the aide just to be with ds. I told him he needs to read the IEP! Anyway after lots of explaining on my part we have an IEP meeting tuesday afternoon to hammer everything out. I swear they were just going to wing it! The insanty starts again.
I haven't even been able to get ahold of dd's teachers. So much for being prepared like I intended.
Samantha

Middle school is such a pain in the TUSH! My friend had huge troubles with her son on the first day (yesterday) and the school just wanted her to just let him go on his own because "he is in middle school now". Does that just mean they stop having needs too?
Good luck and have fun with the fires. I am still wondering if the bus actually picked up my dd today from middle school since she isn't home yet. I hope someone knows where she is.
Renee
Here is to good luck to you!
We are starting 6th grade here in NY after Labor day. We had Josh's IEP meeting. DH had to attend because i am in Florida on a family matter so he will have the kids to himself for a week. But it is offfical Josh will be in the Inclusion class as a spec-ed kid. I am understanding their will be the 2nd teacher for the spec-ed kids in the class room although she will help all the kids. But she will be the one keeping an Eye on Josh and hopefully keep him on track. He will eb doing the social skills group, OT and he will eb reevlauate for Speech and probably get it. But so far for us things seem to be going okay. We won't know th eteachers till maybe the week before school starts and then meet the teacher will be about one to two weeks later.
As I tell others my goal for this year is to just get through 6th grade.
Rina
Samantha,
I hope the fire lighting is going well! in addition to making sure all the administration is doing their job, please talk to each and every one of his teachers. My experience w/ MS is that they think if the child has an IEP and doesn't actually have resource classes for the subject that they just need preferencial seating or something. My son pretty much fell through the cracks the first month of school (and then again in the 2nd semester) because he's smart so they didn't think they needed to continue to follow all of the IEP or they stopped reading the IEP at the point which it said "preferencial seating", and didn't bother to read the part where he needs additional help w/ notetaking, written assignment plans, assignment broken down into specific steps w/ separate due dates, extended due dates, etc. Then the teacher would get angry w/ my son because she thought he was being disrespectful or lieing when he said he didn't know where his assignment was or no he didn't get that assignment.
so far, the highschool program he's in looks better (only 2 days old), but he has all the assignments for his algebra class already for the 1st month, he has very specific outlines of what the Global Studies and International Literature classes will be doing and when. His science teacher seems to "get" quirky kids as well. The teachers have taken all the email addies and other stuff, and 2 have already sent confirmation emails to be sure the addies are correct. My son and I will both get biweekly email/paper updates as to how he's doing complete w/ when assignments are turned in and how much he's participating in class. His class sizes are small as well-- 17-20 students per class vs. 25-40 in regular highschool classes.
I hope the year goes well!
Betsy