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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 96180" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It would be interesting to know why he thinks other music is hard - maybe it's something to do with familiarity?</p><p></p><p>With kids like this, you can sometimes luck out or you can sometimes work it out. And sometimes there is nothing you can do.</p><p></p><p>With difficult child 1, he sailed through Kindergarten (the first of our school years in Australia) but in Year 1, he was a mess. So was his teacher. And his K teacher didn't have a good rep with the other parents, she really wasn't good, but she had just happened by instinct to do all the right things for difficult child 1. His Year 1 teacher was a bundle of nerves who tried to run her class like a military establishment (she has mellowed with time). Her inability to cope actually led to difficult child 1 finally getting identified as having problems.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 is an example of a kid who no teacher could help sufficiently to keep him in mainstream. He's very bright, has needed extension work in a number of subjects, but is very rigid about the conditions in which he can learn. He's had the worst teachers as well as some of the best, and it was seeing how even the best teachers couldn't help him enough, that led to us pulling him out of mainstream. The school tried hard, but the environment there was simply incompatible for him, so we've found a very different option that works.</p><p></p><p>And I always did my darndest to work hand in hand with the school. Yes, there were times when I put my steel-capped boots on, I remember having one teacher in tears although only a few hours later we were working side by side in the kitchen at a school dance - no hard feelings, because I put my case reasonably.</p><p></p><p>Some kids can't be helped no matter how hard you try, even if their parents are working as a team with you. So if you are dealing with parents with Ostrich Syndrome, your ability to help with ANYTHING is severely hampered.</p><p></p><p>All I can suggest for you - do what you can, do what you f eel is right, try to work out how the kid ticks and if you can't do anything else learn enough from this encounter to be better equipped to help the next child like this that comes into your class.</p><p></p><p>Happy reading!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 96180, member: 1991"] It would be interesting to know why he thinks other music is hard - maybe it's something to do with familiarity? With kids like this, you can sometimes luck out or you can sometimes work it out. And sometimes there is nothing you can do. With difficult child 1, he sailed through Kindergarten (the first of our school years in Australia) but in Year 1, he was a mess. So was his teacher. And his K teacher didn't have a good rep with the other parents, she really wasn't good, but she had just happened by instinct to do all the right things for difficult child 1. His Year 1 teacher was a bundle of nerves who tried to run her class like a military establishment (she has mellowed with time). Her inability to cope actually led to difficult child 1 finally getting identified as having problems. difficult child 3 is an example of a kid who no teacher could help sufficiently to keep him in mainstream. He's very bright, has needed extension work in a number of subjects, but is very rigid about the conditions in which he can learn. He's had the worst teachers as well as some of the best, and it was seeing how even the best teachers couldn't help him enough, that led to us pulling him out of mainstream. The school tried hard, but the environment there was simply incompatible for him, so we've found a very different option that works. And I always did my darndest to work hand in hand with the school. Yes, there were times when I put my steel-capped boots on, I remember having one teacher in tears although only a few hours later we were working side by side in the kitchen at a school dance - no hard feelings, because I put my case reasonably. Some kids can't be helped no matter how hard you try, even if their parents are working as a team with you. So if you are dealing with parents with Ostrich Syndrome, your ability to help with ANYTHING is severely hampered. All I can suggest for you - do what you can, do what you f eel is right, try to work out how the kid ticks and if you can't do anything else learn enough from this encounter to be better equipped to help the next child like this that comes into your class. Happy reading! Marg [/QUOTE]
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