Teacher vent-long

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Registered: 04-28-2007
Teacher vent-long
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Sun, 01-20-2008 - 12:33pm

Have to vent ladies, sorry!

As you all know I am less than impressed with Liam's current placement and teacher. It's the same class as last year, some new students but a new teacher,.....and she SUCKS! What's scary is she's a flipping spec ed autism teacher, can you believe it? The problem is last year's teacher walked on water and this year the new teacher is sub par; that's a big drop off kwim?!

Well when Liam was manic last Fall and his meds were funking out on him, his anxiety and behaviour spiked; suddenly he was getting a broken down daily schedule of his behaviour, instead of the simple 1-5 overall daily report. Well, Christmas plus med change, plus the cosmos clicking for a bit Liam is very stable and seems happier (some anxiety, but we are working with him). Then last Tues and Wed we didn't get any report...nada. I emailed his teacher asking how his two days with no report were and added that after Liam's pdoc appt on Friday I'd bring him back to school.

Now we are in a specific program where the school system gives us access to a pdoc free of charge (we pay for meds is all) and the teacher has to be at these meeetings too. Guess what, even after I mentioned the appt to her on Wednesday she didn't show and when I asked her later why, she said she didn't realize there was an appt. And thus I catch her is yet another lie. She responded to my email Friday at 6:58am saying she couldn't make the meeting as she was short a parapro and had to wait for the substitute. But when I asked after dropping Liam off she said she didn't know about the appt. WTF, make up your mind which lie you're going to stick with.

What I think is basically Liam's doing better behaviourally so she couldn't be bothered showing up, and I can only expect daily reports when he's had a bad day. NOT ACCEPTABLE LADY! He is also slipping academically, reversing letters, awful spelling; all writing problems. His reading is coming along as it's a computer program and that's his first love; the computer. We are trying to get the county to move Liam at least for next year, but as the district has no clue as to it's spec ed population numbers for next year and where these classrooms will be we are up the creek without a paddle. I suspect lots of emails, phonecalls and meetings from March on to get something settled for next year. He's not ready for inclusion, but he does not fit in the current class at all....sigh. The ideal is a self contained for part of the day with other hfa students and pull out for partial inclusion....a pipe dream pipe dream.

If you made it this far, you need a life, lol....I need a beer! It's 5 o'clock in Ireland:)

Dee

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: roanmom
Sun, 01-20-2008 - 1:17pm

Wow.

                                

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Registered: 12-22-2003
In reply to: roanmom
Sun, 01-20-2008 - 2:47pm

So help me Dee, we really do live parallel lives, don't we?!?!


I'm not sure how many times I can tell the people in our district that their options for Claire are totally unacceptable.

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