Wednesday, June 07, 2006
I've been a busy little nightwatchman
Last week I decided to pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over again.
There is an awful lot to do and feeling sorry for myself just doesn't get me very far so the first thing that I did was contact the head honcho at West River and outlined my plan to him.
The next thing that happened was that the para that works with my kids came over to pump me for info. So, I fed it to her. Including the fact that I didn't like the job security that the current resource teacher had for this coming year.
As expected, she went home, called her and told her.
The result was extremely pleasant.
She is no longer working with my boys.
To avoid any unpleasantness the school opted to offer her a position with the high school so I shouldn't have too much problems with my neighbours, one of which is her brother.
I figure that if he hasn't worked out by now what kind of person she is, he will never know.
I bailed up Nathan's old Kindergarten teacher and she told me what had gone on during the year and we made an agreement that the crap that had happened last year was definitely not going to be repeated.
John will have a para with him while he is kindergarten but, the cute thing is that the class is going to have at least 3 kids in it that I know of that have ADD/ADHD so I think they are going to have a hell of a time.
It is another big class with over 20 kids in it.
Nathan was withdrawn, that is to say, not totally withdrawn from the school system, I just changed his place of schooling so I will still get support from the school but, he will be working at home with me.
My friend Melissa came over on the weekend and we worked real hard at getting Nathan's playroom organised.
Monday I had a meeting at the school so I started the program on Tuesday.
It was just an informal 45 minuted session where he just wandered around and played with the different toys and got used to the room.
I got a number of new words out of him and for the most part his attention span was good.
He also said" what did it do that for?" which confirmed my suspicions that he is a selective mute and it won't take too much to get him to talk more.
I went down to the old resource room and the room had been gutted. All the posters and pictures off the wall and the stimming rice table will be removed.
All it seems to take dealing with the school systems is a repetitive kick in the ass on a regular basis.
There is an awful lot to do and feeling sorry for myself just doesn't get me very far so the first thing that I did was contact the head honcho at West River and outlined my plan to him.
The next thing that happened was that the para that works with my kids came over to pump me for info. So, I fed it to her. Including the fact that I didn't like the job security that the current resource teacher had for this coming year.
As expected, she went home, called her and told her.
The result was extremely pleasant.
She is no longer working with my boys.
To avoid any unpleasantness the school opted to offer her a position with the high school so I shouldn't have too much problems with my neighbours, one of which is her brother.
I figure that if he hasn't worked out by now what kind of person she is, he will never know.
I bailed up Nathan's old Kindergarten teacher and she told me what had gone on during the year and we made an agreement that the crap that had happened last year was definitely not going to be repeated.
John will have a para with him while he is kindergarten but, the cute thing is that the class is going to have at least 3 kids in it that I know of that have ADD/ADHD so I think they are going to have a hell of a time.
It is another big class with over 20 kids in it.
Nathan was withdrawn, that is to say, not totally withdrawn from the school system, I just changed his place of schooling so I will still get support from the school but, he will be working at home with me.
My friend Melissa came over on the weekend and we worked real hard at getting Nathan's playroom organised.
Monday I had a meeting at the school so I started the program on Tuesday.
It was just an informal 45 minuted session where he just wandered around and played with the different toys and got used to the room.
I got a number of new words out of him and for the most part his attention span was good.
He also said" what did it do that for?" which confirmed my suspicions that he is a selective mute and it won't take too much to get him to talk more.
I went down to the old resource room and the room had been gutted. All the posters and pictures off the wall and the stimming rice table will be removed.
All it seems to take dealing with the school systems is a repetitive kick in the ass on a regular basis.
