Post by twosomy21 on Apr 11, 2008 11:59:07 GMT -5
kyle is in a new class this yr. he had always carried acdemic goals in his iep with minimal sucess. he is strong sociall, which is good because i feel once he masters feeling independant the rest will come. and he is ten writes his name(left out the y and now adds it but writes the name wrong 
)any who had a pre meeting with teacher and assis. principle .the prin. starts off by saying"i need you to understand we are not dropping a social goal to add an academic goal(this is all because kyle met one of his social goals,he has 4) so my horns were growing and i said kyle is strong socially he will have 3 more goals in place and he is showing interest in reading so this is where were at. she states we will not replace a social goal with an academic one-i state yes we will because there is a need, and this is what he needs.......... she states that is mixing apples and oranges? wow talk about confrontation before my cup of joe 
and starts telling me her concerns related to kyle i stopped her and said i am his mom and the concerned one here, me and his current teacher talk alot and she inturrupts me to say i talk to kyle alot and i feel he is not strong socially. i told her listen we will implament the academic goal and maybe i am using the wrong wording or something but this social goal is gone.she said something about speech and i told her yes, speech is something he has had since age 3 and you know what maybe its as good as its going to get so i need to move on. i am not sure if i made the right choice and feel i need to play the search game again. i did have a talk with his teacherand we will remeet again-just need some input. the teacher explained her views and although they are good,they are just for social awareness for the ds population. she said kyle will not be competing academiclly so it does not make sense to teach this, i told her he will reach his threshold of learning but i have oblagations too.gotta go but sorry for rambaling
)any who had a pre meeting with teacher and assis. principle .the prin. starts off by saying"i need you to understand we are not dropping a social goal to add an academic goal(this is all because kyle met one of his social goals,he has 4) so my horns were growing and i said kyle is strong socially he will have 3 more goals in place and he is showing interest in reading so this is where were at. she states we will not replace a social goal with an academic one-i state yes we will because there is a need, and this is what he needs.......... she states that is mixing apples and oranges? wow talk about confrontation before my cup of joe 
and starts telling me her concerns related to kyle i stopped her and said i am his mom and the concerned one here, me and his current teacher talk alot and she inturrupts me to say i talk to kyle alot and i feel he is not strong socially. i told her listen we will implament the academic goal and maybe i am using the wrong wording or something but this social goal is gone.she said something about speech and i told her yes, speech is something he has had since age 3 and you know what maybe its as good as its going to get so i need to move on. i am not sure if i made the right choice and feel i need to play the search game again. i did have a talk with his teacherand we will remeet again-just need some input. the teacher explained her views and although they are good,they are just for social awareness for the ds population. she said kyle will not be competing academiclly so it does not make sense to teach this, i told her he will reach his threshold of learning but i have oblagations too.gotta go but sorry for rambaling
Although i've been dealing w/ IEP's for many years now w/ Mary, it is, i'm finding, ALOT different than what i'll be dealing w/ when Brookster goes to school. Good luck to you 
