TerryJ2
Well-Known Member
Oh dear, this is going to be one, tough year.
I met with-the 504 team today (everyone except the math teacher). The English teacher pointed out that difficult child has so far been very polite but that he is already behind on two papers, and that he sits sideways so he can talk to his friends and also see her, and she has to keep calling his name. She turned her body to show me how he does it and it was the exact same thing that his math teacher showed me last yr. It was *almost* funny.
So difficult child wrote ONE of the papers today, after arguing with-both me and husband. husband finally got difficult child to sit down and do the paper. Note that he incorrectly puts apostrophes around the title instead of bold facing or underlining or whatever his style manual says (poems can have quotation marks but not books), and that he never says who the author is. That's not even addressing the literalism of the page numbers.
Here's the first paragraph:
***
Over the summer I read a book called "The Stand." I haven't finished it yet but I'm on page 758, out of about 1,605 pages. So far I like it. So without further ado here is my summary.
***
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The good news is that he actually wrote an entire page, discussing what's going on in the book (and from his description, I have no desire to read it!!! lol.)
The other good news is that now that the 504 is in place (technically, it already was, but this makes the teachers sign off on it and ensures that we have added or subtracted anything we need), and it's a month into the school year, they are getting a good dose of his behaviors and lack of participation. We should be communicating a lot in the coming weeks ...
I met with-the 504 team today (everyone except the math teacher). The English teacher pointed out that difficult child has so far been very polite but that he is already behind on two papers, and that he sits sideways so he can talk to his friends and also see her, and she has to keep calling his name. She turned her body to show me how he does it and it was the exact same thing that his math teacher showed me last yr. It was *almost* funny.
So difficult child wrote ONE of the papers today, after arguing with-both me and husband. husband finally got difficult child to sit down and do the paper. Note that he incorrectly puts apostrophes around the title instead of bold facing or underlining or whatever his style manual says (poems can have quotation marks but not books), and that he never says who the author is. That's not even addressing the literalism of the page numbers.
Here's the first paragraph:
***
Over the summer I read a book called "The Stand." I haven't finished it yet but I'm on page 758, out of about 1,605 pages. So far I like it. So without further ado here is my summary.
***
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The good news is that he actually wrote an entire page, discussing what's going on in the book (and from his description, I have no desire to read it!!! lol.)
The other good news is that now that the 504 is in place (technically, it already was, but this makes the teachers sign off on it and ensures that we have added or subtracted anything we need), and it's a month into the school year, they are getting a good dose of his behaviors and lack of participation. We should be communicating a lot in the coming weeks ...