JJJ
Active Member
Tigger is suppose to attend school 10:30am-2:35pm. The bus has been picking him up at 2:15pm and he has been home before the end of the school day! Also, he is only mainstreamed for lunch, recess, and specials. Specials is a once a day 30-minute class that alternates between gym and fine arts. Tigger doesn't go to the main lunchroom because it 'hurts his ears'. He often eats with a small group 3-4 kids in the social workers room. So his 15 minute recess and the 30 min special are his only times with more than 3 other kids. Now they want to take away his special on Tuesdays so he can have his 1:1 orchestra lesson. I'm no longer sure why we bother meeting at the start of the school year to ensure that things like this don't happen -- it is in one ear and out the other with some of these staff. Here is the e-mail I want to send by noon. Feedback please:
Tigger has been arriving home at 2:35pm. This is upsetting to me because the school day doesn't end until 2:35pm, yet somehow he is picked up at his school, goes to another school to pick up other children and arrives home -- all by the official end of the school day. His IEP goals cannot be met by spending 100 minutes/week of his instructional time on the bus. Regular education children are not expected to miss their final class period of the day for the ease of transportation scheduling. Due to medical necessity, Tigger already has a shortened day. To shorten it further for the convenience of the bus service is unconscionable. Please talk to transportation and have Tigger picked up from his school at 2:35pm beginning next week.
Also, the reason for our meeting in August was to ensure that all of Tigger's services be provided in an appropriate schedule. Yet, today I was informed that I will have to chose between his only mainstreaming opportunity on Tuesday or his orchestra sectional. This is unacceptable. Please work with the orchestra teacher to solve this problem. Once the transportation issue is solved, the easy solution is to have Tigger go to orchestra immediately after his mainstream special (1:50pm-2:20pm) instead of the currently offered 1:30pm-2:00pm.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter,
Tigger has been arriving home at 2:35pm. This is upsetting to me because the school day doesn't end until 2:35pm, yet somehow he is picked up at his school, goes to another school to pick up other children and arrives home -- all by the official end of the school day. His IEP goals cannot be met by spending 100 minutes/week of his instructional time on the bus. Regular education children are not expected to miss their final class period of the day for the ease of transportation scheduling. Due to medical necessity, Tigger already has a shortened day. To shorten it further for the convenience of the bus service is unconscionable. Please talk to transportation and have Tigger picked up from his school at 2:35pm beginning next week.
Also, the reason for our meeting in August was to ensure that all of Tigger's services be provided in an appropriate schedule. Yet, today I was informed that I will have to chose between his only mainstreaming opportunity on Tuesday or his orchestra sectional. This is unacceptable. Please work with the orchestra teacher to solve this problem. Once the transportation issue is solved, the easy solution is to have Tigger go to orchestra immediately after his mainstream special (1:50pm-2:20pm) instead of the currently offered 1:30pm-2:00pm.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter,