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<blockquote data-quote="Christy" data-source="post: 191669" data-attributes="member: 225"><p>Wow! I am having flashbacks to my sons younger years--not good memories. Your daughter needs support. Having children's hospital speak to them or attend the iep if possible is a good idea. An advocate is also a good idea, someone well verse on Special Education law. </p><p></p><p>The teacher calling you crying is extremely unprofessional and I would write a letter to the principal stating your concerns about her ability to react in a crisis situation.</p><p></p><p>Your daughter's behaviors are extreme and the school will not miss an opprotunity to run down the listr of incidents at every meeting. They will document each incident and paint a picture of an out-of-control child. Don't feel like you are responsible for her behavior. Keep steering the conversation back to the fact that her behaviors are the result a medical condition. Ask what the school is will do differently to provide additonal support? Stress the need to be proactive rather than reactive. A full-time 1:1 with training provided for her and the teacher on your daughter's condition and a behavior intervention plan that is designed specifically for you daughter is a start. </p><p></p><p>You asked about specialized placements. My son attends a self-contained theraputic placement for students with behavioral/emotional problems that is part of the county school system. It is good and bad. It is great for providing behavioral support but does not provide the same level of academics (it claims that it does but I have not found this to be the case). There is no opportunity for mainstreaming. In this case, the program states that mainstreaming is the goal but it's a falicy because these kids with never get the opprotunity to mainstream due to their extreme behaviors. If you get to the point where you are deciding about a specialized placement, keep this in mind. Should there be a disagreement between you and the school, the student will remain in the current placement until the issue is resolved. So if you decide to place your daughter in a specilized placement and for some reason you feel it is not working out for her, she will be stuck in that placement (unlesss you choose private or homeschool). This is the case for us right now, we feel stuck. We homeschooled last year, great for academics but no socialization which our difficult child desperatedly needs. I had hoped to join homeschool groups but with difficult child's behavior, it did not work out well. I know that he would be thown out of private school in an instant so we are back to the same public school setting and while I know that my son could not hold it together in the mainstream all day, I feel that things could be better and we are trying to get a 1:1 and revisions to his iep to make that happen. </p><p></p><p>I wish you the very best as I know what a diffiecult and worrisome situation you are facing. </p><p></p><p>Christy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Christy, post: 191669, member: 225"] Wow! I am having flashbacks to my sons younger years--not good memories. Your daughter needs support. Having children's hospital speak to them or attend the iep if possible is a good idea. An advocate is also a good idea, someone well verse on Special Education law. The teacher calling you crying is extremely unprofessional and I would write a letter to the principal stating your concerns about her ability to react in a crisis situation. Your daughter's behaviors are extreme and the school will not miss an opprotunity to run down the listr of incidents at every meeting. They will document each incident and paint a picture of an out-of-control child. Don't feel like you are responsible for her behavior. Keep steering the conversation back to the fact that her behaviors are the result a medical condition. Ask what the school is will do differently to provide additonal support? Stress the need to be proactive rather than reactive. A full-time 1:1 with training provided for her and the teacher on your daughter's condition and a behavior intervention plan that is designed specifically for you daughter is a start. You asked about specialized placements. My son attends a self-contained theraputic placement for students with behavioral/emotional problems that is part of the county school system. It is good and bad. It is great for providing behavioral support but does not provide the same level of academics (it claims that it does but I have not found this to be the case). There is no opportunity for mainstreaming. In this case, the program states that mainstreaming is the goal but it's a falicy because these kids with never get the opprotunity to mainstream due to their extreme behaviors. If you get to the point where you are deciding about a specialized placement, keep this in mind. Should there be a disagreement between you and the school, the student will remain in the current placement until the issue is resolved. So if you decide to place your daughter in a specilized placement and for some reason you feel it is not working out for her, she will be stuck in that placement (unlesss you choose private or homeschool). This is the case for us right now, we feel stuck. We homeschooled last year, great for academics but no socialization which our difficult child desperatedly needs. I had hoped to join homeschool groups but with difficult child's behavior, it did not work out well. I know that he would be thown out of private school in an instant so we are back to the same public school setting and while I know that my son could not hold it together in the mainstream all day, I feel that things could be better and we are trying to get a 1:1 and revisions to his iep to make that happen. I wish you the very best as I know what a diffiecult and worrisome situation you are facing. Christy [/QUOTE]
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