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Hello to all!

I am back and it feels like coming home.
Put son back in the last month and a half of school last year.
New school, it was great.
Responsive special ed. teacher, and was open to everything I
could offer. (this was the honeymoon)
My son went half a day, the comments were great,
so polite, eagar to learn, he was this teachers total
delight. No problem that he has learning disablitlies.
As long as he was doing well, he would start a full day
of the school year this fall.
When school started this fall: Day one, they integrated him
into the sixth grade, gave him a Para who knew nothing
about him. Totally amazed they gave him 6th grade books
and he was no where near that complex of materials, much
less able to read them.

The next day I called a IEP meeting, the tables
turned everyone showed up for this meeting! and I was
told how mistaken I was about him being at school for
a full day. Hmm. I told them they better look at the paperwork that
documented it all in writing.
The assit. superindendent, thought maybe in the afternoons
I could teach him the "little things" I had been teaching
prior. Well, now, that was HOMESCHOOLING! And I worked my hind end off!

Anyway, I can see the set up now, I had the feeling he was being
set up.
He was taught sitting in the hallways on the floor, or in the library,
when the sixth grade teacher couldn't have him in there. Actually, it came
out
that he was only in the room for lunch selection.
He was removed without my knowledge from classes that he spent
with the regular 6th graders. Science, social studies etc. I was assured that
he work would be modified. They didn't do this.
The full time Para that was being paid strictly for him, was off helping
other children out of the room, in another part of the school. One day we
were
talking, and she told me she had to go and help her other student.
Found out no one helped him read the lunch selections, so instead
of the lunch he thought he wanted and was picking, he got what
he wasn't wanting for lunch. again, where was this Para?

Enough, so I just gave all of you a confirmation of whats going on
in the public school system for a child with learning needs for those of you
that may be entertaing the thought.

All in all, it was a good break, he insisted on going back, and I needed to
re-group.

The assist superintendent, also the homeschooling monitor, "is very willing
to provide
me with the intent to homeschool papers, and shared with me that I didn't
have
to worry about my son not testing well, as she knows him and knows he doesn't
test well. She would never insist that he be returned back to public school."

Hey all, good to be back, sorry so long.

Linda




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