Agreed, it is a problem, but in this case it's not THE problem. The problem is budget crises and the bad ideas floated to solve them.
I do find myself wondering why so many sped parents in your district are availing themselves of outside therapy when the district offers free services. That's way above normal. Kiddo is not currently in outside therapy - he should be, but I need to find a new one thanks to a change of insurance. But he's got a social worker, speech and language therapist... why would I pay for outside therapy when he gets great services for free? Hrm.
I have no idea. I like Sean's therapists, and the work they're doing with him is great as far as I'm concerned. (okay, yes, he does go swimming once or twice a month with his O&M teacher on Saturdays, but that comes out of her allotment of hours in the school district so we only pay for the external costs like pool-entrance fees (which is about three dollars).
*hugs* The school district has to keep providing Sean services if he needs them. AS far as external services, we used to have a therapist for David through Stanford which we liked, but she moved away, and when he went to middle school he started seeing a therapist there which we like so we right now only have a meds doctor for him. (He's since gone on the high school, but he has a therapist through high school as well.)
Phinnia, sweetie, you are in no danger of getting sucked into the weird super-mommy competition because you are aware of the folly of this. From what you've said about Sean, he seems to be doing wonderfully with the therapy he gets at school. You are not driving yourself crazy and he gets time to be a kid. These are both great blessings.
I have known people who had their children scheduled into extracurricular activities every single day of the week, with the whole family acting like hyperactive whippets chasing mechanical rabbits until they collapsed into bed every night. I personally think there are better ways to justify my existence than to fill up every square on a calendar.
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I do find myself wondering why so many sped parents in your district are availing themselves of outside therapy when the district offers free services. That's way above normal. Kiddo is not currently in outside therapy - he should be, but I need to find a new one thanks to a change of insurance. But he's got a social worker, speech and language therapist... why would I pay for outside therapy when he gets great services for free? Hrm.
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The school district has to keep providing Sean services if he needs them.
AS far as external services, we used to have a therapist for David through Stanford which we liked, but she moved away, and when he went to middle school he started seeing a therapist there which we like so we right now only have a meds doctor for him. (He's since gone on the high school, but he has a therapist through high school as well.)
I was never a supermommy. It's not inevitable.
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Phinnia, sweetie, you are in no danger of getting sucked into the weird super-mommy competition because you are aware of the folly of this. From what you've said about Sean, he seems to be doing wonderfully with the therapy he gets at school. You are not driving yourself crazy and he gets time to be a kid. These are both great blessings.
I have known people who had their children scheduled into extracurricular activities every single day of the week, with the whole family acting like hyperactive whippets chasing mechanical rabbits until they collapsed into bed every night. I personally think there are better ways to justify my existence than to fill up every square on a calendar.
*hugs again, because you are wonderful*
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