Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Middle School The Nightmare Continues

After, a transition plan was done for our son, you cannot even really call it a plan.  It was just a tour of the school.  It was done two days before school let out.  I told them he was not ready for middle school challenges.  But, they refused to listen.  Then, they got mad at me, because he was having a hard time.  Our son who once loved school became petrified of school.  This school had a history of discrimination against special needs kids.  First, they knew he had disabilities that made change and transitions hard for him.  Yet, no one was there to help him not even on the first day.  Second, the problems that arose could have been prevented had they did a proper transition and followed his I. E.p. Even the autism coordiconsultant and special ed coordiator were  of no help.
He was kicked out of school and moved to another school.  Which, he loves, thankfully.

  It wasn't until recently that we found out why he was petrified of school.  He kept getting lost. Again, there was an easy solution to this and it could have been prevented. But, again we faced discrimination within the school system.

High Functioning Autism

It can be really hard to have children with high functioning autism.  Our daughter was diagnosed last year at the end of 7th grade.  While, she is very gifted, she is very shy.
Her younger brother who has Asperger's, cod, a.d.h.d., and o.d.d.  has had trouble all through echoing.  He was kicked out of a charter school on the second day of Kindergarten.  Upon, losing our house the principal followled me out to the parking lot and asked me ten times if we were moving.  There's more.  That was only the beginnings of our troubles and the horrible discrimination we faced and still face today.