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Tigger refused to go to school
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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 22214" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>My difficult child had severe school anxiety with- seperation anxiety in first grade. If I had to do it all over again, there is one thing I would have done differently and that was to listen to what difficult child was telling me. He told me that school was scary. He told me that he could only handle half a day of school at the beginning of the year and it turned out he was right. Instead of listening to him I listened to the "experts" at school who told me to push him to be there for as much of the school day as possible. My pushing only increased his anxiety, worsened his overall emotional state, and made recovery a long, slow process. It DID keep him walking through the doors of the school though--I homeschooled whatever portion of the day he was gone. That didn't go over big with the school district and they were about ready to force homebound when he hit the point of full day (5 hours educational time in my state) attendance.</p><p></p><p>He's pulled out of it and is happy and functional at school but it took two full years. I personally would not use restraints to get my difficult child to school because it would have done far more damage emotionally than any good that could have come out of it. I did use an incentive program to keep him going--not sure that I'd do that again either though. I agree you must address the anxiety first--</p><p></p><p>Have you called an IEP meeting to discuss and work out a plan? Something may be very wrong with the setting for him. He may need a different arrangement or there might be a better arrangement--our district offered a homebound instructor to meet difficult child at school so he wouldn't have to deal with a full class setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 22214, member: 701"] My difficult child had severe school anxiety with- seperation anxiety in first grade. If I had to do it all over again, there is one thing I would have done differently and that was to listen to what difficult child was telling me. He told me that school was scary. He told me that he could only handle half a day of school at the beginning of the year and it turned out he was right. Instead of listening to him I listened to the "experts" at school who told me to push him to be there for as much of the school day as possible. My pushing only increased his anxiety, worsened his overall emotional state, and made recovery a long, slow process. It DID keep him walking through the doors of the school though--I homeschooled whatever portion of the day he was gone. That didn't go over big with the school district and they were about ready to force homebound when he hit the point of full day (5 hours educational time in my state) attendance. He's pulled out of it and is happy and functional at school but it took two full years. I personally would not use restraints to get my difficult child to school because it would have done far more damage emotionally than any good that could have come out of it. I did use an incentive program to keep him going--not sure that I'd do that again either though. I agree you must address the anxiety first-- Have you called an IEP meeting to discuss and work out a plan? Something may be very wrong with the setting for him. He may need a different arrangement or there might be a better arrangement--our district offered a homebound instructor to meet difficult child at school so he wouldn't have to deal with a full class setting. [/QUOTE]
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