ESY?

[Guest guest]

Sorry to be bombarding all of you will questions, but I had another

situation come up this morning. My son has a 1:1 aide in his

preschool class. There is also 1 1/2 classroom aides in his class

of eight students. Last summer, the district started a summer

program 2x a week for 6 weeks. My son only went to the program the

last 3 days because I refused to send him without a 1:1 aide. It is

my position that the summer program was made up of the neediest 8

children in the entire preschool program. If he needs a 1:1 aide in

the regular school year when the 8 children in his class have a

variety of skill levels, he clearly would need a 1:1 aide in the

summer. My other fear was that if I gave in and sent him to the

summer program without an aide, the district would say that he was

fine in the summer and didn't need one during the regular school

year.

This year they are having the same program. I wanted to make sure I

didn't spend this summer trying to negotiate summer services again,

so I left a message yesterday with the school psych. Today, I was

told that there would be one classroom aide for the summer and that

they would not provide a 1:1 aide for my son. So, essentially they

are pulling the neediest 8 children from a pool of 40 and putting

one teacher and one classroom aide in the class. I will contact the

special ed director and begin the battle, but I wanted to know if

other parents have had similar issues with their district. I guess

I feel like every time I turn around I'm picking another fight.

Thanks,

Colleen