::sigh::
So. Callan has been back in school for...a little over a week, due to holidays. He's been riding the regular school bus in and, thus far, the school is provisionally pleased with his progress. They want to meet with us, of course, but that's to be expected. He's started his autism spectrum testing; he's had other testing; he's supposed to have an IEP by no later than October.
Last week, his homeroom teacher and the school special ed teacher called me. They have decided to remove him from the regular lunch room because he gets agitated by all the noise and activity at lunch and has a hard time settling down when they're back in the classroom. So now, instead of having time to just socialize with his peer group at lunch, he sits in a room by himself with an aide to eat.
This morning, I receive a call from the principal. They want to remove him from the school bus because he had a "bad trip home" last night and a "bad trip in" this morning. That would be a grand total of two "bad trips." They want to put him on a van by himself. Again. So he will have no peer group socialization going in or coming home.
He just received his first birthday party invitation, from a kid who rides the bus with him, yesterday.
I...just...I do not know who to get it through to this school district that isolating the kid who needs help with proper group socialization from group socialization is unlikely to achieve any result but alienating him completely from his peer group. He's already saying that kids call him weird. They are not preventing other kids from thinking that he's not okay to play with, they are reinforcing a negative perception that they fucking established IN KINDERGARTEN and which is now perpetuating itself into First Grade.
I do not know what to do.
Last week, his homeroom teacher and the school special ed teacher called me. They have decided to remove him from the regular lunch room because he gets agitated by all the noise and activity at lunch and has a hard time settling down when they're back in the classroom. So now, instead of having time to just socialize with his peer group at lunch, he sits in a room by himself with an aide to eat.
This morning, I receive a call from the principal. They want to remove him from the school bus because he had a "bad trip home" last night and a "bad trip in" this morning. That would be a grand total of two "bad trips." They want to put him on a van by himself. Again. So he will have no peer group socialization going in or coming home.
He just received his first birthday party invitation, from a kid who rides the bus with him, yesterday.
I...just...I do not know who to get it through to this school district that isolating the kid who needs help with proper group socialization from group socialization is unlikely to achieve any result but alienating him completely from his peer group. He's already saying that kids call him weird. They are not preventing other kids from thinking that he's not okay to play with, they are reinforcing a negative perception that they fucking established IN KINDERGARTEN and which is now perpetuating itself into First Grade.
I do not know what to do.