Daughter started 8th grade yesterday here in the town we moved to because of the excellent school system.  Yes, this is the same system that failed my son who is now homeschooling.  This is the same system I set my sights on getting my kids into (which means being able to afford to live in this town) so they could get a great education in a ( Read more... )

I finally got my son in to see the Neuro-psych specialists for assessment after being on the waiting list for seven months.  Why was I under the impression they would take into consideration his difficult birth and his congenital birth defects and complicated medical history?  They didn't.  What they did was an 8 hour long battery of tests on his ( Read more... )

I was just reading yezida on LJ regarding Guontanimo and her questions about torture and human nature.  Last night, someone sent me this www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/17/seclusion.rooms/index.html  which discusses the death of a child in a seclusion room at a school in Georgia.  In my research over these past months (since the request from my son's school ( Read more... )