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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (55012)	8/22/2002 1:37:28 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Thanks! I probably will have a great day, it started off pretty well :-) My oldest daughter had her last sleepover before school starts today- and I took all the girls to IHOP in their PJ's (Except for my daughter, who had to wear her jeans over her PJ's). Now all the girls are gone, and the potato chips are vacuumed out of the rug, and I'm off to register my oldest for her last year of middle school. Tomorrow my son and younger daughter get their school pictures taken and we find out who their teachers are- am crossing my fingers that I get teachers I like. My son had a very rough time last year. This year he may get an aide though, because last year was SO abysmal. His teacher last year is retiring, she has lupus, which is very sad. I'm sure that affected her teaching. I'm not angry, but I am sorry we lost a year. But perhaps this will be a learning experience, and it may give me leverage in years to come- i can certainly demonstrate that with poor teaching and no attention my son will learn very little. In spelling- the one subject I had control over, because I had an oversized print edition at home, and because it was tested regularly, my son went up 20 percentile points (to the 80th percentile) on the Standford 9- in many other areas, where the teacher skipped around, and I had little control, my son lost ground. Sigh We went through the entire math book over the summer, so he knows it all now, and I think is ready to start 5th grade. He is as prepared as we can make him, over one summer. His resource teacher called me this week, and suggested we all get together before school starts- so she obviously realizes last year was a great disappointment. Our resource teacher is very nice, but young- and when the teacher refused to try new things, or use modifications she would suggest, our resource teacher would back down. All these things I understand, but hope that this year will be different and better. Cross your fingers for me. If that doesn't work both our doctor and my son's neuropsychologist are ready to come to fight for him, ot make sure he gets a better education this year. Gosh, this was a long post. Hope it wasn't too boring. But the start of a new year is always triply nerve wracking when you have a child with special needs. I do not agonize anywhere near as much over my daughters and their placements. I know they can overcome almost any normal obstacle, and they will survive and learn and prosper. But the child with special needs, especially when those needs are uncommon, is hard to raise. I guess this weighs on my mind today. :-)