im still ticked at the school and how the IEP meeting went, ron and i have been trying to decide what exactly to do, i think we are both leaning towards home schooling wyatt starting next year but we still arent 100% sure as of yet. it just really pisses me off that no other help was suggested or offered, i mean here we have a child who isnt that far behind the rest of his class, and yet, they want to hold him back.. however a child who is really really far behind is pushed forward to the next grade level and given summer school..
for example, my nephew brandon who i love dearly and i know what the reasons are for his educational issues but still.. he is truly a child in need and has never once been held back, it has never even been an option on the table since kindergarten (which they did hold him back and have him repeat kindergarten) .. he is offered summer school every year and every year is pushed forward to the next grade.
dont get me wrong, i dont want my wyatt ending up being *one of them kids* that are forgotten about and im willing to do whatever i can as mom to help him along.. but how can i help him along when im not kept in the loop of things?
at our IEP meeting, that was the first time i have ever met his special education reading teacher, ive still yet to ever meet his writing/fine motor skills teacher, not once over the year were we given special homework, not once over the year has his classroom teacher ever suggested there was an issue in the classroom, even 2 weeks ago i was told how awesome he was doing in the classroom side of things and than, now this?
and as much as someone could look at me and say *you dropped the ball you should have been on top of the teachers like you always have been* i can say the same thing about the teachers, ive never had a teacher not willing to work with me, well i take that back i did with *little ron* when he was in 1st grade and it was awful but on a whole different level than this one is..
last year wyatts teacher, reading teacher, and i worked so hard together to give him the best.. and this year, not one thing was ever done .. the only thing that i talked to his teacher about was when she brought up spelling and reading in our first parent teacher conference and i told her how his teacher and i worked things last year.
when i was told to *stop* writing things for him (i write like the 3 sentences and that he tells me and than he re-writes them) but i refused to, because i know what works for him.
the kicker for me when reading over his IEP stuff, both the original testing stuff and the stuff for this year that i had just received .. is that his teacher acted like she was doing all this extra great stuff for wyatt in the classroom and its written in his IEP that she has to do these things, it wasnt extra stuff she was giving him out of the kindness of his heart.. but stuff that she HAS to do with him. im sorry if she sees it as an inconvenience but deal with it.
its just sad to me that its not the education that they are looking at as much as the test scores that might affect their perfect scores.. stupid schools!!
wyatt has never been offered additional after school help, we were told he would not receive summer school help at all.. we werent offered any suggestions on how i could help him over the summer to improve his reading etc, instead we were just tossed out the *hold him back* and to me, the school has failed in that department, wyatt will NOT be held back and it breaks my heart that he might not be able to go to regular school next year because i know how much he loves school but i refuse to allow them to hold him back when i know for a fact that just a bit of extra help would give him the boost he needs.
