...and if he'd been screwing around during the announcement, it would have been his fault. What if he was trying to listen, and ten other kids in the class were making a bunch of noise? That's happened to one of my kids. He's had four surgeries to slowly correct his hearing problems. At this point, his biggest problem with hearing is not being able to distinguish one voice from several (imagine an episode of Hannity and Colmes). He missed an announcement last fall because he couldn't hear it over other kids' voices. He asked his teacher, when he had a chance, what the announcement was, and she had no idea. Turns out it was for all the kids riding his bus, to let them know that they'd be picked up in a different parking lot. He went to the usual place, waited and waited, no sign of his bus. Fortunately, his big brother noticed he wasn't on the bus and the driver went and fetched him.
That labs would be closed after school?
Doesn't that essentially mean that the kids who had been planning on using the labs would be left unsupervised for some length of time? I sure hope the janitorial staff at the school had been well screened. That's not mundane. As a parent of young boys, that is frightening.
You got the problem with the announcements: other kids talking.
I consider the problems we are having with my son as minor. However, I am also fighting for the school to change because of my daughter. Her problems are so much larger than my son. I would have in her IEP that the school has to give her the announcements every day written down on a piece of paper. I would also have that the teachers have to write down all of her homework assignments. I know it would be this whole legal battle with the school district.
So far, we’re planning on sending my daughters to private school. However, if something happens to my husband’s job we would be forced into going to our public school.
I was pretty mad that my son was left unsupervised. My son isn’t the problem, it’s other people I worry about. There’s been some strange characters around his school (rumors of drug dealers). It’s supposed to be a good neighborhood, but it ain’t perfect. The principal never even apologized for leaving my son unsupervised.