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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 569424"><p>Get an advocate!! As far as I know, charter schools get federal education money so they are bound by the same rules and timelines as regular public schools. You REALLY need to find your copy of your written request for evaluations. They are wrong about "not being covered until he's got an IEP". He's covered fromt the day they receive the written request. They are trying to bully you out of the school because they don't want to have to deal with him. And the line about not having to educate him until he is 8 is baloney. </p><p></p><p>As for the Tenex, absolutely it can be causing him to act like this. He IS tired. That is one of the major side effects (besides lower blood pressure) of that medication. There is no way you should be giving it to him during the day. </p><p></p><p>Let me explain the scenario you just shared from your son's perspective. He gets frustrated over something and can't handle it so he pushes everything off his desk. The adults around him don't like that so they try to punish him by moving the clip down but all that does is makes his anxiety even worse because now he's losing whatever the reward is. So now, not only is he frustrated by the initial problem, they add another problem on. He doesn't know what else to do so he lashes out. It's not intentional but he needs to "vent" somehow and he doesn't know how. Because he's lashed out, he's being grabbed and pinned down by big scary adults that weigh a ton and probably have bad breath (those are the two biggest things that set difficult child 1 off big time). Nature's fight or flight (definition of anxiety) kicks in and he does all he can to get them to let him go so he can run. He needs to escape all the issues that he's just been bombarded with. That is the only thing his little brain can do at that point.</p><p></p><p>Just because I have been through this almost verbatim with difficult child 1, I can tell you your son is going to end up with PTSD from this school if he is made to stay there without help to survive. Personally, I would pull him out of school for now (while you still legally can), get an accurate diagnosis, get appropriate medications regulated, request Special Education evaluations from your district (it will fall under pre-school), and send him back to Kindergarten next year at a different school with an IEP in place. That is what I should have done but didn't. I didn't know any better and difficult child 1 ended up paying the price over the period of 7 years. My concern is for what all this is going to do to your difficult child. If you do these things now, he'll be in a MUCH better place for years to come. I've lived along the road you're going to head down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 569424"] Get an advocate!! As far as I know, charter schools get federal education money so they are bound by the same rules and timelines as regular public schools. You REALLY need to find your copy of your written request for evaluations. They are wrong about "not being covered until he's got an IEP". He's covered fromt the day they receive the written request. They are trying to bully you out of the school because they don't want to have to deal with him. And the line about not having to educate him until he is 8 is baloney. As for the Tenex, absolutely it can be causing him to act like this. He IS tired. That is one of the major side effects (besides lower blood pressure) of that medication. There is no way you should be giving it to him during the day. Let me explain the scenario you just shared from your son's perspective. He gets frustrated over something and can't handle it so he pushes everything off his desk. The adults around him don't like that so they try to punish him by moving the clip down but all that does is makes his anxiety even worse because now he's losing whatever the reward is. So now, not only is he frustrated by the initial problem, they add another problem on. He doesn't know what else to do so he lashes out. It's not intentional but he needs to "vent" somehow and he doesn't know how. Because he's lashed out, he's being grabbed and pinned down by big scary adults that weigh a ton and probably have bad breath (those are the two biggest things that set difficult child 1 off big time). Nature's fight or flight (definition of anxiety) kicks in and he does all he can to get them to let him go so he can run. He needs to escape all the issues that he's just been bombarded with. That is the only thing his little brain can do at that point. Just because I have been through this almost verbatim with difficult child 1, I can tell you your son is going to end up with PTSD from this school if he is made to stay there without help to survive. Personally, I would pull him out of school for now (while you still legally can), get an accurate diagnosis, get appropriate medications regulated, request Special Education evaluations from your district (it will fall under pre-school), and send him back to Kindergarten next year at a different school with an IEP in place. That is what I should have done but didn't. I didn't know any better and difficult child 1 ended up paying the price over the period of 7 years. My concern is for what all this is going to do to your difficult child. If you do these things now, he'll be in a MUCH better place for years to come. I've lived along the road you're going to head down. [/QUOTE]
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