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<blockquote data-quote="HMBgal" data-source="post: 483718" data-attributes="member: 13260"><p>Thanks to all for your great input. My daughter, sister in law, and husband will be attending the "Emergency 504 Plan" tomorrow. That's what the SD called it after we requested his attendance records and hit them with "You are supposed to be giving him 180 minutes minimum a day, which you've done three times, with 8 suspensions. Exactly what is the percentage of time he's been in class?" along with "Another parent got my SILs phone number from somewhere, called his cell at home and threatened him. Did you know about this?". I can't go because I have a high profile IEP that I must attend at my job, but my grandson will be well-represented. It's so funny. There are usually five or six of us at every meeting. The site director (the school board cut funding for a principal, so there is a part time person, who is also working for the superintendent, and they come and go and are well acquainted with my grandson. The site director is brand new, from out of state, and while very sweet and I do believe is genuinely trying her best, I'm sure she's being thwarted at every turn, as well. She has a pre-teen that was just diagnosed as Asperger's, so is very emotional herself right now. I've loaned her all of my books. Anyway, I'm wondering if they are going to recommend at aide. I'm of two minds about this due to Least Restrictive Environment concerns, but that's another discussion.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the clarification about social progress being part of academics. I hadn't though of that before and don't know how to quantify that, which is what they want, without doing any formal evaluations, of course.</p><p></p><p>Kaiser is an HMO, a closed system and if you are insured by them, well, that's that. I will investigate the neuropsychologist, but it doesn't appear that they even have one on staff. Will it cost me my retirement to do it on my own from someplace like Lucille Packard Children's Hospital or somewhere?</p><p></p><p>I do indeed have the Out of Sync Child, as well as the Out of Sync Child Has Fun. I use the latter frequently for designing adapted PE activities and recommend it to the parents of the kids on my caseload. Do you know why my grandson got suspended last week? The whole class was playing Duck, Duck, Goose. Yeah. Perfect game for a kid like that, and for several other aggressive (and sneaky) boys that are in that class. Dumb, dumb, dumb on the teacher's part. That is a game for the P.E. Hall of Shame. So, he did something impulsive and goodbye, yet again. I went to pick him up and he's chatting it up, reading to the office ladies, and looking like an angel. He was so obviously upset at being kicked out of school (NOT). Good idea to ask an Occupational Therapist (OT) friend to check him out; she totally owes me for some help I was able to give for some students of hers, plus she's a real sweetheart.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the discussion about labels. So, a SED label doesn't matter should my grandson want to go into the military, law enforcement, teaching, Civil Service, etc? Wouldn't he have to sign something releasing his records to them if he wants to work for them? I'm looking far down the road, but if what the SD is telling us is patently untrue, that would be nice to be able to tell them. </p><p></p><p>As for doing poorly on state testing, 40% of the school are non-English speakers (and half of his class) as these folks are bused up from agricultural low-income housing about 15 miles away, so the school is already dancing as fast as they can to get scores up. This district is notorious for poor scores, although my grandson's school was fairly well performing when our kids went through. At my district of employment, we can have a certain percent doing what we call CAPA testing (alternative assessments for students with moderate/severe designations). My grandson is well out of testing at this point because we don't start testing until the second grade. </p><p></p><p>So, we are letting the SD lead us around by the nose to see where it leads us, but they know that we know that this ain't kosher and "up with it we will not put" for much longer. </p><p></p><p>So glad to hear that Concerta worked for your son, Buddy. We haven't seen much change this week, but his dose doubles tomorrow, so that will probably tell us something.</p><p></p><p>So, it's back to school tomorrow for us and our kiddos. Good luck to all and good night!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMBgal, post: 483718, member: 13260"] Thanks to all for your great input. My daughter, sister in law, and husband will be attending the "Emergency 504 Plan" tomorrow. That's what the SD called it after we requested his attendance records and hit them with "You are supposed to be giving him 180 minutes minimum a day, which you've done three times, with 8 suspensions. Exactly what is the percentage of time he's been in class?" along with "Another parent got my SILs phone number from somewhere, called his cell at home and threatened him. Did you know about this?". I can't go because I have a high profile IEP that I must attend at my job, but my grandson will be well-represented. It's so funny. There are usually five or six of us at every meeting. The site director (the school board cut funding for a principal, so there is a part time person, who is also working for the superintendent, and they come and go and are well acquainted with my grandson. The site director is brand new, from out of state, and while very sweet and I do believe is genuinely trying her best, I'm sure she's being thwarted at every turn, as well. She has a pre-teen that was just diagnosed as Asperger's, so is very emotional herself right now. I've loaned her all of my books. Anyway, I'm wondering if they are going to recommend at aide. I'm of two minds about this due to Least Restrictive Environment concerns, but that's another discussion. Thanks for the clarification about social progress being part of academics. I hadn't though of that before and don't know how to quantify that, which is what they want, without doing any formal evaluations, of course. Kaiser is an HMO, a closed system and if you are insured by them, well, that's that. I will investigate the neuropsychologist, but it doesn't appear that they even have one on staff. Will it cost me my retirement to do it on my own from someplace like Lucille Packard Children's Hospital or somewhere? I do indeed have the Out of Sync Child, as well as the Out of Sync Child Has Fun. I use the latter frequently for designing adapted PE activities and recommend it to the parents of the kids on my caseload. Do you know why my grandson got suspended last week? The whole class was playing Duck, Duck, Goose. Yeah. Perfect game for a kid like that, and for several other aggressive (and sneaky) boys that are in that class. Dumb, dumb, dumb on the teacher's part. That is a game for the P.E. Hall of Shame. So, he did something impulsive and goodbye, yet again. I went to pick him up and he's chatting it up, reading to the office ladies, and looking like an angel. He was so obviously upset at being kicked out of school (NOT). Good idea to ask an Occupational Therapist (OT) friend to check him out; she totally owes me for some help I was able to give for some students of hers, plus she's a real sweetheart. Thanks for the discussion about labels. So, a SED label doesn't matter should my grandson want to go into the military, law enforcement, teaching, Civil Service, etc? Wouldn't he have to sign something releasing his records to them if he wants to work for them? I'm looking far down the road, but if what the SD is telling us is patently untrue, that would be nice to be able to tell them. As for doing poorly on state testing, 40% of the school are non-English speakers (and half of his class) as these folks are bused up from agricultural low-income housing about 15 miles away, so the school is already dancing as fast as they can to get scores up. This district is notorious for poor scores, although my grandson's school was fairly well performing when our kids went through. At my district of employment, we can have a certain percent doing what we call CAPA testing (alternative assessments for students with moderate/severe designations). My grandson is well out of testing at this point because we don't start testing until the second grade. So, we are letting the SD lead us around by the nose to see where it leads us, but they know that we know that this ain't kosher and "up with it we will not put" for much longer. So glad to hear that Concerta worked for your son, Buddy. We haven't seen much change this week, but his dose doubles tomorrow, so that will probably tell us something. So, it's back to school tomorrow for us and our kiddos. Good luck to all and good night! [/QUOTE]
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