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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 610954" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>It sounded like you said they'd send the packet to the good school if you agreed to let them send the packet to the bad one, too, am I correct? If that's the case, do it. Sending the packet does not mean you've agreed to a particular placement, just to consider it. I'd do it so you can get the packet to the good school since you can't apply yourself. </p><p></p><p>I did this with my difficult child. I then went to see the bad school, which was not really "bad," just not the right fit for my son as it sounds like the school would not be for your son. I made a list of all the ways in which that school was not appropriate for my son, which you can't really do without visiting. In our case, we wound up doing an FBA, changing his teachers and putting him in to accelerated math the following year, which took care of many of his behavioral issues. My son told the school psychologist (he was in grade 6) that when he was a grown up, he was going to come to the school with his army of the soldiers of the night and kill everyone. The doctor said "are the soldiers here with you now?" to which difficult child responded "If you think you see them, you are hallucinating and need more help than I can give you!" They actually tried to suspend him for that but we wound up getting his assigned psychologist changed instead.</p><p></p><p>Again, I think you should look at both schools and make notes and a list. I had a long list of reasons why the other school wasn't right for difficult child and number one on the list was that the nurse told me he'd be the only unmedicated child in the place if he went there. Apparently, most of the kids were early bipolar, PTSD and the like. Number 2 was the fact that the curriculum was about 2 years below grade level and difficult child's IQ is 139. Number 3 was the 1 hour bus ride each way when we live 4 blocks from the home school. I think you get the idea. Don't forget to check out the websites for both schools and see if you can get any info from them. I do want to say that I have friends whose kids went to the "bad school" and it was a good school for their needs, it just wasn't appropriate for my difficult child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 610954, member: 3493"] It sounded like you said they'd send the packet to the good school if you agreed to let them send the packet to the bad one, too, am I correct? If that's the case, do it. Sending the packet does not mean you've agreed to a particular placement, just to consider it. I'd do it so you can get the packet to the good school since you can't apply yourself. I did this with my difficult child. I then went to see the bad school, which was not really "bad," just not the right fit for my son as it sounds like the school would not be for your son. I made a list of all the ways in which that school was not appropriate for my son, which you can't really do without visiting. In our case, we wound up doing an FBA, changing his teachers and putting him in to accelerated math the following year, which took care of many of his behavioral issues. My son told the school psychologist (he was in grade 6) that when he was a grown up, he was going to come to the school with his army of the soldiers of the night and kill everyone. The doctor said "are the soldiers here with you now?" to which difficult child responded "If you think you see them, you are hallucinating and need more help than I can give you!" They actually tried to suspend him for that but we wound up getting his assigned psychologist changed instead. Again, I think you should look at both schools and make notes and a list. I had a long list of reasons why the other school wasn't right for difficult child and number one on the list was that the nurse told me he'd be the only unmedicated child in the place if he went there. Apparently, most of the kids were early bipolar, PTSD and the like. Number 2 was the fact that the curriculum was about 2 years below grade level and difficult child's IQ is 139. Number 3 was the 1 hour bus ride each way when we live 4 blocks from the home school. I think you get the idea. Don't forget to check out the websites for both schools and see if you can get any info from them. I do want to say that I have friends whose kids went to the "bad school" and it was a good school for their needs, it just wasn't appropriate for my difficult child. [/QUOTE]
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