Umma | September 30, 2008
Dang, such a good morning and now this, lol. Monkey was on the playground playing chase with another student. He was running and looking back at the boy chasing him and he hit a pole. Oww! He didn’t even react, the aid didn’t notice anything was wrong until he ran by her. She thought he [...]
Umma | September 30, 2008
What a relief! We saw the final of the three classrooms the school wanted us to consider this AM and it is perfect.
It is an integrated classroom but with a lower student-teacher ratio. This class will never have more than 11 students (5 IEPs, 6 typical) where his other classroom can have up to 15 students (6 [...]
Umma | September 29, 2008
We toured two classrooms and peeked into a third. Both classrooms were substantially separate classrooms. We saw one of them last year and rejected it and the other was set up exactly like the second classroom we rejected last year! So that was productive. The third classroom was an integrated classroom which we just peeked into, [...]
Umma | September 25, 2008
You’ll have to forgive me for obsessing over the IEP situation. This is only our second IEP so I still don’t know what normal is but our advocate assures us that this is a very surreal situation and she’s written hundreds so I believe her, lol.
When we wrote our first IEP the team chair tried [...]
Umma | September 24, 2008
Seriously. We are going to tour two substantially separate classrooms on Monday at the school’s insistance. This is, as they see it, the next necessary step in the discussion.
Oh, I so wish I could share some of the gems from today’s meeting. Some were insulting (to their own staff even) and others were umm…outside the [...]
