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Parent/Teacher Conference Help
I read through a lot of the other topics, but couldn't find anything that helped exactly what I needed.
My son is 10, diagnosed when he was 3 (very young, I know). I didn't want to do meds and struggled with it for a long time. It wasn't until he was in kindergarten and I was getting called into the school everyday to pick him up that I put him on the meds.
He's now in 5th grade, and this year, we are trying to not do meds. He doesn't want to take them, so I'm not going to force him. Here's my problem:
He gets around 10-10.5 hours of sleep each night. I had one of his teachers (he switches classes in 5th grade) tell me that he was falling asleep in class. So he went to bed a little earlier. Another of his teachers told me that he could not use mechanical pencils anymore because he plays with them, even when I explained to her that they helped his horrible handwriting. She was adamant that he cannot use them. I get unhappy notes from all the teachers in his planner just about every night. Yesterday when I picked him up, the teacher very quickly told me that the teachers (3 in all) are requesting a conference. I got home and looked in his planner and the teacher that writes the unhappy notes (who screams at my son, or so he says), wrote in incredibly large letters that she wanted a conference.
This school has mostly never been helpful with him. They insisted he go on meds in kindergarten, which I reluctantly agreed to. The teachers only want to point out what he does wrong, and expect me to fix it. I let them know I can only punish so much, but I'm not in the class with them, so I can't correct him there. I tried to get him a 504 plan last year (took them all year to even do the psychological assessment and then never heard another thing other than they were waiting on the psychologist to get back with them, but since he wasn't failing, he wasn't going to qualify). I still haven't gotten any answer about what happened, and we are already into the next year.
I feel like I'm being attacked, and when I'm sitting in a room with all three teachers telling me what he's doing wrong, it's only going to be me by myself. Any help, or ideas on how to handle this, and not feel like I'm bait for the lions? TIA
Erica
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