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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 556359" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Are you *kidding* me???? That's worth it's weight in gold, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds!!! Especially given the teacher's negative comments... maybe she's a better teacher than she came across in the email, since our kids tend to pick up on naysayers pretty darn fast and it's reflected in the kids' performance and attitude towards the class.</p><p></p><p>Is she failing because of the notes, or failing because of her cooking skills?</p><p></p><p>Tough cookies (ha, a pun) if teacher thinks she's below HS level. All the more reason to have difficult child in a mainstreamed class, especially one that she enjoys.</p><p></p><p>Maybe it's time for another IEP mtg to specifically address teacher's concerns - sounds like she's talking apples and difficult child is an orange. Teacher may just need to switch orchards. I think I would fight like heck to keep difficult child in this class since it's one she's enthused about.</p><p></p><p>As far as future job skills and abilities, I know it's hard not to worry about it, but 14 is still so young and there is a huge difference between a 14-year-old and an 18-year-old, difficult child or not. What you can and should be doing is looking hard at transition skills/transition goals on her IEP. If you haven't started discussing it yet with- IEP team, I would. Can't remember federal regs, but I know in IL, kids were to start having transition goals starting at age 14-1/2. </p><p></p><p>Again - difficult child at 18 is probably going to have a very different skill set than she does now. If she stays in school 'til age 21, even more so. Far too early to start predicting her ability to function independently in a job, in my humble opinion, but definitely *not* too early to start looking at what skills she needs to tune up to get there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 556359, member: 8"] Are you *kidding* me???? That's worth it's weight in gold, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds!!! Especially given the teacher's negative comments... maybe she's a better teacher than she came across in the email, since our kids tend to pick up on naysayers pretty darn fast and it's reflected in the kids' performance and attitude towards the class. Is she failing because of the notes, or failing because of her cooking skills? Tough cookies (ha, a pun) if teacher thinks she's below HS level. All the more reason to have difficult child in a mainstreamed class, especially one that she enjoys. Maybe it's time for another IEP mtg to specifically address teacher's concerns - sounds like she's talking apples and difficult child is an orange. Teacher may just need to switch orchards. I think I would fight like heck to keep difficult child in this class since it's one she's enthused about. As far as future job skills and abilities, I know it's hard not to worry about it, but 14 is still so young and there is a huge difference between a 14-year-old and an 18-year-old, difficult child or not. What you can and should be doing is looking hard at transition skills/transition goals on her IEP. If you haven't started discussing it yet with- IEP team, I would. Can't remember federal regs, but I know in IL, kids were to start having transition goals starting at age 14-1/2. Again - difficult child at 18 is probably going to have a very different skill set than she does now. If she stays in school 'til age 21, even more so. Far too early to start predicting her ability to function independently in a job, in my humble opinion, but definitely *not* too early to start looking at what skills she needs to tune up to get there. [/QUOTE]
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