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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 503690" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Buddy this is true -- I suffered through it with so many schools with Matt, I can't even count. Both private and public schools. And once his behavior reached a certain point they did everything in their power to get rid of them, and it worked.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what it is about being in those meetings like that, and having them say all those awful, awful things to us about our kids - but I was a complete basket case each and every time it happened. Like you said, I would just sob and sob when I got through with the meeting.</p><p></p><p>I guess it boils down to being mentally tortured. They we are, all alone, no spouse to carry part of the burden -- and we are ridiculed, threatened, and made bare in front of a group of people about the thing we love the MOST in the world. Our own child, someone who is part of us. I cannot even explain it very well -- it is that painful and horrible -- and that unique of a situation that so many people in this world never go through.</p><p></p><p>Taking it to the press I think would do absolutely nothing. In fact they would probably take the school's side and decide that Q is the next Columbine threat.</p><p></p><p>Once the Columbine episode happened, everything in the world for our special needs children changed. Their whole "Zero Tolerance" bologna regulates the school's entire mindset, and they use it as BS excuses for every single thing they don't like about our special needs kids.</p><p></p><p>In the third grade, the year of Columbine Matt hated his teacher. The feeling was quite mutual - she did NOT like him at all. She antagonized him and provoked him into being even worse than he was already being. One day he screamed and told her he wanted to kill her. That was that. They kicked him out of public school. I spent 3 weeks fighting for his rights to get him back in - which I succeeded in doing -- but only on the condition that he was completely isolated from the other kids for the rest of the school year. </p><p></p><p>In the 6th grade Matt told a girl to F off -- and she went to the principals office and said she was being sexually harassed. Then her mom came to school to say that since this girl was a sexual abuse victim, and Matt was "sexually harassing her" that Matt should be removed from all her classes. HUH???? But that is indeed what happened.</p><p></p><p>I could go on and on and on.........by the 9th grade I pulled him out of formal schooling and had to homeschool him. I did find that the local community college offered HS classes for homeschoolers, and that actually worked out pretty well for awhile. And I think you know the rest of my story.</p><p></p><p>I am just so so sorry -- my thoughts and prayers are with you. You WILL feel better tomorrow - I can promise you that. It is just that you were in a mental car wreck - and you are in shock right now. Once that goes away, you will regain your strength.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 503690, member: 3301"] Buddy this is true -- I suffered through it with so many schools with Matt, I can't even count. Both private and public schools. And once his behavior reached a certain point they did everything in their power to get rid of them, and it worked. I don't know what it is about being in those meetings like that, and having them say all those awful, awful things to us about our kids - but I was a complete basket case each and every time it happened. Like you said, I would just sob and sob when I got through with the meeting. I guess it boils down to being mentally tortured. They we are, all alone, no spouse to carry part of the burden -- and we are ridiculed, threatened, and made bare in front of a group of people about the thing we love the MOST in the world. Our own child, someone who is part of us. I cannot even explain it very well -- it is that painful and horrible -- and that unique of a situation that so many people in this world never go through. Taking it to the press I think would do absolutely nothing. In fact they would probably take the school's side and decide that Q is the next Columbine threat. Once the Columbine episode happened, everything in the world for our special needs children changed. Their whole "Zero Tolerance" bologna regulates the school's entire mindset, and they use it as BS excuses for every single thing they don't like about our special needs kids. In the third grade, the year of Columbine Matt hated his teacher. The feeling was quite mutual - she did NOT like him at all. She antagonized him and provoked him into being even worse than he was already being. One day he screamed and told her he wanted to kill her. That was that. They kicked him out of public school. I spent 3 weeks fighting for his rights to get him back in - which I succeeded in doing -- but only on the condition that he was completely isolated from the other kids for the rest of the school year. In the 6th grade Matt told a girl to F off -- and she went to the principals office and said she was being sexually harassed. Then her mom came to school to say that since this girl was a sexual abuse victim, and Matt was "sexually harassing her" that Matt should be removed from all her classes. HUH???? But that is indeed what happened. I could go on and on and on.........by the 9th grade I pulled him out of formal schooling and had to homeschool him. I did find that the local community college offered HS classes for homeschoolers, and that actually worked out pretty well for awhile. And I think you know the rest of my story. I am just so so sorry -- my thoughts and prayers are with you. You WILL feel better tomorrow - I can promise you that. It is just that you were in a mental car wreck - and you are in shock right now. Once that goes away, you will regain your strength. [/QUOTE]
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