It looks like... maybe... folks are ready to give care and thought to the decision about placing my current student's younger sibling. Today the general ed side implemented a behavior plan for her separate from our classroom, and tomorrow a local screening committee meeting will address many of the relevant issues. Administrators are investigating the various programs available at nearby schools, and I was allowed to meet for 45 minutes with the school psych to discuss the implications of her placement on my current student, her brother.
Everything is in place to foster a close consideration of the alternatives, those that are easy/convenient and those that are more complicated.
Thank God.
I still wonder if I am being played. All this preparation and signs of advocacy... But is it all for show? Will none of this really matter in the long run? Could her placement be a foregone conclusion? Does it really matter to the powers-that-be that moving my current kid up to an older age/grade group is absolutely inappropriate to meet his needs?
I continue to worry, but hope lives on.
More later.
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I hope, I pray. That for your sake (to a small extent), and for the student's sake, things shake out the way you feel they should.
From what you've said, it feels right this millions of nano-seconds away.
And of course, you're absolutely right to worry - it could well happen that the transportation budget overrules common (and un-common) sense.
But, according to the rules that carried me through three decades in the classroom, sleep tonight, worry tomorrow?
I would worry, too. It'll be interesting to see how things work out.
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