My 12-year-old started school this week. All I can write is there is one teacher and two aides for ten kids in wheelchairs. I will have much support with me at the IEP as many, and I mean many, regulations/laws are being ignored and broken. There is an inexeperienced teacher and it is a new school. Eight out of the ten students live where my son does at the children's facility. I don't know yet if they don't know what is appropriate and legal or if they are over-looking the needs of the children. They are at the high school even though many, like my son, are middle school aged.
I am not screaming because I need to make this work. What I am doing is arming myself with documented knowledge of the legal requirements and bring professionals to back up the facts.
I'm writing this post on my cell phone as I sit outside with my son at the facility. We walked around for about a half an hour and are now by a fountain in a courtyard. You see, the students in my son's class only get to be taken outside the classroom in shifts due to lack of staff. Three lucky kids each day go outside for a recess kind of walk, so my son gets to go outside every third or fourth school day.
I am sad, distraught, and strategizing. And I'm not going to cry.. no, I'm not! Ah, damn.
2 comments:
Unacceptable aide to student ratio. Wow. I would be very upset as well. I know it must be so hard to fight and do it in a civil manner...but you are right, right, right.
Fairly new reader here..and first time commenter.
This is the last thing you need right now, with everything else on your plate. But being the great Mom that you are, you are lining up all appropriate forces so that your son gets what he is entitled to, and what he deserves. What is happening is absoultely unacceptable. I hope things go smoothly and get resolved quickly.
((Hugs) to you and that beautiful boy of yours.
Karen
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