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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 535696" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes, but in a way you need to take the "worst" scenario, I think. If I asked one of J's childminders, for example, she would not check any of the things the teacher did - as far as she's concerned, he's an adorable,cute little guy and she can't believe (seriously) anyone thinks he's hyperactive. But that doesn't mean anything in the wider scheme of things, really. He still has all the issues in other circumstances and situations.</p><p>For me, I have realised, the label is about lending weight to my plea for J to be treated somewhat differently than the norm - because the norm just doesn't work with him, as so many of us here know. I am, frankly, beginning to berate myself for having left J with this teacher for so long... she makes all the right noises about understanding he needs a different approach - and in reality goes after him like a devil from morning to night (I have been told this by one of the teaching assistants). She doesn't have a f***ing clue about ADHD or positive reinforcement or how to work with someone with special needs AT ALL. However, if she had been given the label... she would have had to take it seriously, I think - and there would have been a team of people helping her understand how to work with him. She has resisted that label like crazy... could it be because, precisely, she doesn't want those people involved in her classroom? This is a woman who nearly lost her job some years back because of the way she treated a severely dyslexic pupil... I have lost ALL respect for her and realise that my talks with her, lending her books, all that, have actually had no real effect whatsoever - she has just carried on messing J up regardless...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 535696, member: 11227"] Yes, but in a way you need to take the "worst" scenario, I think. If I asked one of J's childminders, for example, she would not check any of the things the teacher did - as far as she's concerned, he's an adorable,cute little guy and she can't believe (seriously) anyone thinks he's hyperactive. But that doesn't mean anything in the wider scheme of things, really. He still has all the issues in other circumstances and situations. For me, I have realised, the label is about lending weight to my plea for J to be treated somewhat differently than the norm - because the norm just doesn't work with him, as so many of us here know. I am, frankly, beginning to berate myself for having left J with this teacher for so long... she makes all the right noises about understanding he needs a different approach - and in reality goes after him like a devil from morning to night (I have been told this by one of the teaching assistants). She doesn't have a f***ing clue about ADHD or positive reinforcement or how to work with someone with special needs AT ALL. However, if she had been given the label... she would have had to take it seriously, I think - and there would have been a team of people helping her understand how to work with him. She has resisted that label like crazy... could it be because, precisely, she doesn't want those people involved in her classroom? This is a woman who nearly lost her job some years back because of the way she treated a severely dyslexic pupil... I have lost ALL respect for her and realise that my talks with her, lending her books, all that, have actually had no real effect whatsoever - she has just carried on messing J up regardless... [/QUOTE]
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