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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 7109" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>Chris,</p><p></p><p>Of course it depends on the type of h.s. and in many cases what type of person, jerk or helpful, the director of Special Education is.</p><p></p><p>Our public h.s., which is highly competitive with many students hoping to be Ivy bound, is not for everyone and that is not just for a student as unusal as my ex-difficult child. What really burned me on the refusal of the part day program is that they volunteered that HAD done it for non-Special Education. Olympic-hopeful athletes. I have nothing against sports but they are no more valuable to me than music as a special ability for a student. </p><p></p><p>There were lots of other things going on the fall ex-difficult child was a high school freshman, including 9/11 which affected him a great deal, but the h.s. was NOT helpful--and not safe for a very depressed Goth with a lot of dark-side Goth friends. These dressed-in-black kids were attendng a high school called "suicide high" for a good reason and the school was oblivious that they were more dangerous as a group than individually (they had a suicide pact.) Sheesh--it is still easy for me to get cranked on these things five years after the fact.</p><p></p><p>I think the contract with the middle school is a good idea. I hope your h.s. is better than ours for students with mmod disorders.</p><p></p><p>Martie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 7109, member: 284"] Chris, Of course it depends on the type of h.s. and in many cases what type of person, jerk or helpful, the director of Special Education is. Our public h.s., which is highly competitive with many students hoping to be Ivy bound, is not for everyone and that is not just for a student as unusal as my ex-difficult child. What really burned me on the refusal of the part day program is that they volunteered that HAD done it for non-Special Education. Olympic-hopeful athletes. I have nothing against sports but they are no more valuable to me than music as a special ability for a student. There were lots of other things going on the fall ex-difficult child was a high school freshman, including 9/11 which affected him a great deal, but the h.s. was NOT helpful--and not safe for a very depressed Goth with a lot of dark-side Goth friends. These dressed-in-black kids were attendng a high school called "suicide high" for a good reason and the school was oblivious that they were more dangerous as a group than individually (they had a suicide pact.) Sheesh--it is still easy for me to get cranked on these things five years after the fact. I think the contract with the middle school is a good idea. I hope your h.s. is better than ours for students with mmod disorders. Martie [/QUOTE]
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