He’d do better being homeschooled.
“He’d do better being homeschooled.”
Exactly. Imagine having a fire alarm that constantly sounds off in class. It is very hard for kids to learn in that environment.
But a vote on kicking him out was sick.
I agree, that is probably the best place for him. He probably needs a much more class size and one on one than is possible in a public school.
As a parent of a child on the ASD spectrum, these type of stories naturally strike a chord with me. Fortunately we have a great school system in place.
We have 2-3 IEP’s per school year along with ‘problem solving’ meetings as needed. We are getting ready to transfer our daughter from one program to another (and one building to another as well) within the school system, and the plan is to have one of these meetings every couple of weeks to help her with the transition.
If they were having these meetings odds are this problem likely never would have happened.
Parents must be their child’s advocate. You can refuse to sign the IEP if you feel it is not correct. The parents and teachers also need to be realistic in the placement and goals that are set for the child. You want to push them to be the most they can be, but you also need to balance that with what they can handle as well.
If this had been an ongoing problem, the teacher should have requested a re-evaluation of the IEP.
I hold the teacher completely at fault based upon what this article says. But I also fault the school as well if they did not have a system in place to address when a placement seems to not be working out.
As far as home schooling goes...it is extremely difficult to provide all of the special services a child on the ASD spectrum needs as an individual/family. Also, it is very important for those children to have the example of neuro-typical children. Many things just don’t come naturally and they need lots of examples to understand social conventions among peers.
“He’d do better being homeschooled.’
The homeschool crowd battles with atheists for the title of “Who’s the most self-righteous, arrogant, and ignorant crowd of people in American Life.”
Kids with Aspbergers need public or private school education and socialization settings MORE than anything else.
This child will have to learn social interaction, like most with Aspbergers, he’ll learn socialization by memorizing thousands of possible interactions, and the thousands of interactions needed to learn (and memorize) this will only be available in a school setting.
But then he’d miss all that special socialization in the schools!
While what the teacher did was stupid and rotten, the larger point is that school outside the home is not appropriate for this child, at least from what is in the article.