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School - What they didn't tell me...
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 68366" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I don't know if you can do what I would do - our system allows it, although it's a closely guarded secret.</p><p></p><p>When we've had problems like this in the past I went to the principal AND school counsellor and requested an urgent staff meeting for all staff who deal with my child. I had a representative from Autism Association also present, and after she had been observing him in classes all morning.</p><p></p><p>The school made attendance at this meeting optional - a big problem - but this WAS senior high school. Nevertheless, we used the time to not only explain about difficult child 1's problems, but also to field questions about why and how his support was needed.</p><p></p><p>There were two teachers present who were a big problem for us - but at least they were present. others who were also a problem were not present. It gave us both an opportunity to get across what we needed to, and to also realise that some people would only make small concessions and even that, reluctantly.</p><p></p><p>The teachers who didn't turn up - I sat waiting for them. I had phone calls with them. Some of them were very nice people, but they just didn't get it.</p><p></p><p>With the class changing thing - this was introduced to the primary (elementary) school that the older three kids went to. Even the K/1 class had a time table - it was cute, seeing easy child 2/difficult child 2 come home from school, 4 years old, proudly showing me her school timetable. For both of them this made the transition to high school much easier.</p><p></p><p>But difficult child 3 would not have coped. And because we could see, when we had a trial run, that this was going to be a problem, we transferred him to correspondence for high school. He's doing a lot better this way. He still has different teachers for each subject but I'm there as liaison. Also, whenever they access his file on the computer (as when he telephones them) any updates from any other teacher are also there on the computer screen.</p><p></p><p>It's not perfect, but crikey, it's a whole lot better than full-time mainstream for him!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 68366, member: 1991"] I don't know if you can do what I would do - our system allows it, although it's a closely guarded secret. When we've had problems like this in the past I went to the principal AND school counsellor and requested an urgent staff meeting for all staff who deal with my child. I had a representative from Autism Association also present, and after she had been observing him in classes all morning. The school made attendance at this meeting optional - a big problem - but this WAS senior high school. Nevertheless, we used the time to not only explain about difficult child 1's problems, but also to field questions about why and how his support was needed. There were two teachers present who were a big problem for us - but at least they were present. others who were also a problem were not present. It gave us both an opportunity to get across what we needed to, and to also realise that some people would only make small concessions and even that, reluctantly. The teachers who didn't turn up - I sat waiting for them. I had phone calls with them. Some of them were very nice people, but they just didn't get it. With the class changing thing - this was introduced to the primary (elementary) school that the older three kids went to. Even the K/1 class had a time table - it was cute, seeing easy child 2/difficult child 2 come home from school, 4 years old, proudly showing me her school timetable. For both of them this made the transition to high school much easier. But difficult child 3 would not have coped. And because we could see, when we had a trial run, that this was going to be a problem, we transferred him to correspondence for high school. He's doing a lot better this way. He still has different teachers for each subject but I'm there as liaison. Also, whenever they access his file on the computer (as when he telephones them) any updates from any other teacher are also there on the computer screen. It's not perfect, but crikey, it's a whole lot better than full-time mainstream for him! Marg [/QUOTE]
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