The school saga begins
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| Wed, 09-12-2007 - 3:34pm |
Where's the drained and wreaked emoticon?
We are playing email tag with Liam's teacher. She sent an email to dh's work email today that ticked him off so much he fired a response back probably a little too fast and a little too heated, if ykwim. Liam's been getting worse, there is no denial there. Dh thought the tone of teacher's email was Liam needs to be placed back in the EBD setting. She did email again to clarify not so, but wants to address these behaviors no rather than let them get out of control.
Apparently Liam's been using all kinds of excuses for his behavior too, "I'm hungry, I didn't take my medicine, I didn't get enough sleep," etc etc. So he made the med comment today and the teacher jumped all over it thinking and implying we weren't medicating him anymore. HELLOOOO, If anything to kid have been on far too many meds these last few years. He has grown some, and a med dose may need tweaking, but this teacher just doesn't seem to get Liam at all. His teacher last year got Liam to such a good place by the end of the year. What's annoying is it's the same SC class, mostly the same kids and parapros, but with a different teacher. the email tagathon went back and forth and as she kept ccing her emails to the director of the Special Ed school (Liam's class is a satellite class in a separate school) and head psychologist (the one who dx Liam last Fall), they got wind of dh's frustration and intervened, and now we are going to have a meeting after next week. (Next week is Fall break here). Thank goodness, I am curious to see how Liam is after a week away from the stressor of school.
I am much calmer about this than dh (usually the other way round). I honestly am just kind of numb to a lot of this these days. I'm exhausted and run down. I think after having these great few months with Liam and now to see him so wretched has just drained me of any energy. And now I have to chase down the psych who said he'd call yesterday with Cian's results.....'sause he didn't! Aaack, I need a big piece of chocolate pie!
Dee








Geez Dee, I am speechless here!!
I feel so badly for what you are going thru with both of the kids on different levels. Your DH was in a moment that the email just sent him overboard. I'm curious to hear how Liam is doing after the "breaK'.
That may be some explaination to all of this outside of just him getting worse. ((hugs))
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Dee,
Lord, what a rough start to the year for you guys!
The irony is this is a small self contained room for hf auties!!!!! The plan being this is the intermediate room on their way towards inclusion. This teacher has worked with other ASD kids in the past and basically this is supposedly her specialty. Thing is I think she's used to the non-verbal/partially verbal population; Liam is a bit more higher functioing and she can't get it at all. Well, two more days then a wek off and we have 9 days to get Liam chilled out again....I need some Sara/Malcolm mo-jo, lol.
Dee
Hugs and here is a piece of chocolate cake with whipped cream!
I'm sorry school isn't going well and that you are exhausted.
Good Gawd, Lady!
Hey Dee, Sara and Malcolm here, but I am not sure what you think our mojo will accomplish 'cuz WE DON'T HAVE HIM IN A SCHOOL AND THIS PROBLEM IS PART OF THE REASON WHY!!!
When a child has strong reasoning skills and can argue their teacher under the table and uses their language brilliantly and yet is ACTUALLY having confusion due to receptive language problems OR literal interpretation of instructions OR there were IMPLIED instructions or assumptions on the part of the teacher. And these teachers are trained special ed teachers... And then they tell me my child is just being willful. Bad parenting. And we never had him anywhere near a public school.
Sigh. I tell ya, it's enough to give you a major headache just thinking about it all.
Anyways, hugs to you. Big hugs. Malcolm is being all sad about there not being an appropriate school for him again and missing being with friends, makes me all choked up and furious, all at the same time! Next week we are going to the Fall Homeschooling Picnic, our first opportunity for meeting other homeschool kids and parents and I hope it helps us both!
xoxoxo
Sara