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How's Back-to-School going?
Lots of back-to-school related e-mails all of a sudden. (I know, some of you have been back since mid-August. But in our school district, we start after Labor Day. Any earlier would be cruel, considering summer weather in Seattle doesn't even start until July sometime!)
Last year at this time, I was a bundle of chocolate-covered nerves as The Boy prepared to start kindergarten. I'm feeling only a fraction of that anxiety now, but it's still a big adjustment, coming down from our nice, easy little summer and locking back into polite society. He's been assigned a good teacher, and many of his friends from last year are in the same class. I guess this coming week I'll need to touch base with that teacher and do the whole "Here's the deal with my kid" thing.
Meanwhile, Little Girl will be going to co-op preschool again. I'm looking forward to that. I'm also looking forward to not being on the Board this year. More free time, in theory. Let's see how productively I can use it!
How about you? How's your back-to-school transition going?
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Permalink Reply by jenra on -
This is completely asinine! I'm sorry.
ruth said:Back to school sucks. SUCKS. My younger son is autistic, and at the tail end of last year after his psycho-ed re-eval we decided that he really wasn't getting what he needed in a full-inclusion setting. However, he goes to an out of district charter school that doesn't have anything BUT full-inclusion. So we had to try to start the process to transition him back into the Philadelphia school district. At the end of the year. A big, urban school district. Use your imaginations, folks.
So now, a week before school starts, we still don't know where he's going to school. Let me remind you, he's AUTISTIC. Hello? Change is harder for him even than most kids, and we haven't even been able to tell him where he's going. He doesn't even know he's changing schools. The best they can tell us is that the school counselor of our local elementary school, where all IEP stuff has to originate, will be in on Sept. 1 so we can have an IEP meeting on Sept 2 or 3. Nice, huh?
So, yeah, I'm stressed out. Big time. Back to school sux.
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Permalink Reply by Floor Pie on -
Ugh, that sucks, Ruth.
This is nowhere near as bad as that, but The Boy's school just called this afternoon to let me know they switched him to the other class. There'd been some administrative mix-up...they need to keep the kids who need ELL support together, so they moved The Boy to make room for the kids who needed in. But the secretary who called reassured me that the kindergarten teachers were also involved in the decision, and The Boy will still be with some of his friends.
Still, I'm feeling rather uneasy about it all. I guess I've got my own issues with anxiety and routine disruption, too...
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Permalink Reply by TommysMommy on -
I have to wait until next Thursday for Himself to start preschool. I'm sad because it means that summer is over and the craziness of the fall will begin but I'm also thrilled because I have totally run out of ideas on how to keep him amused. I'm out of crafts and I'm tired of the park.
Ruth and FP - that sucks.
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Permalink Reply by The Oracle on -
I hate the park.
There I said it.
TommysMommy said:I have to wait until next Thursday for Himself to start preschool. I'm sad because it means that summer is over and the craziness of the fall will begin but I'm also thrilled because I have totally run out of ideas on how to keep him amused. I'm out of crafts and I'm tired of the park.
Ruth and FP - that sucks.
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Permalink Reply by Kiwi on -
Me too. The benches are always dirty dirty, the other kids are typically wild with asshole parents, and it is ungodly hot with swarms of mosquitoes.
The Oracle said:I hate the park.
There I said it.
TommysMommy said:I have to wait until next Thursday for Himself to start preschool. I'm sad because it means that summer is over and the craziness of the fall will begin but I'm also thrilled because I have totally run out of ideas on how to keep him amused. I'm out of crafts and I'm tired of the park.
Ruth and FP - that sucks.
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