Re: Autistic student barred from class

[Guest guest]

what a bad precedent to be set for autistic/AS kids all across the country. my

son had a lot of behavior problems at the beginning of the school year, before

the AS diagnosis, but his school was very willing to work me, while i tried to

find the diagnosis (it took about a month). everything seems to have settled

down with him behaviorally, though i know that he could start up with his

negative behaviors again (it's almost like he is in cycle iwth his behaviors).

laura

son nathaniel recently diagnosed with AS (about a month ago)

weinert56 <weinert@...> wrote:

Hi,

You folks might recall that we are homeschooling.

Here's what's going on in our school district in the meantime:

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/7214021.htm

[Guest guest]

<<<<<<(it's almost like he is in cycle iwth his behaviors).>

it is not almost. it is exactly. they do cycle.

F

[Guest guest]

,

this happened to our son last year. he was thrown out of the school completely,

and the school (i.e. the principal, the PTA, AND the teachers) went " dirty "

with mass media involved " proving " how bad the child was, instead of simply

installing all the services he needed... his (distortedly told) story was all

over the newspapers, radio and TV here. you can imagine our feelings! and we

could not respond unless we were willing to expose him, which we did not.

I thought of homeschooling a hundred times since first grade, but in the end we

enlisted him in another school where at least they are trying hard to help, if

not always successful.

F

( ) Autistic student barred from class

Hi,

You folks might recall that we are homeschooling.

Here's what's going on in our school district in the meantime:

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/7214021.htm

[Guest guest]

Hi Fania,

I hope this child can find some better solution, too.

I can see this either being a wake up call for our school district

about needing to provide better services or something that polarizes

the whole community.

It's not like autistic kids are going to go away.

I like your notion of assimilating the NT world into ours instead of

vice versa.

[Guest guest]

..were the parents refusing the one to one aide for a specific reason?

[Guest guest]

Hi,

All I know is what I read in the article - the parents believed the

aide, speech, resource room, etc. were making the behaviors worse.

They asked for them to be taken away.

All I've heard through the grapevine is that people who knew the girl

before she started 3rd grade are truly surprised that her behaviors

regressed so quickly. Something was happening in the school

environment that really set her off. If anyone knows what it was, I

don't know, and I'm sure everyone is clamming up now because of the

lawsuit. I haven't tried very hard to find out more about it because

it's depresses me so much.

There's a court proceeding Dec.1 and some school meeting Dec. 2 about

it. At this stage it's the school district suing the parents - with

our tax dollars.