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Jan. 21st, 2011 09:42 amJust back from a regular triannual IEP meeting at my son's school.
Basically, I heard what I expected to hear: he tests well, but has missed homework, has trouble with organization, and hasn't told me about the missed homework and its consequences. (His first report card of the year is locked in a library lost and found in Bronxville before we got to see it; long story.)
We had a productive discussion about strategies to deal with the issues (direct email contacts for M and me to all his teachers, requests for their websites with assignments if necessary, greater monitoring on our part, including seeing screenshots etc., actually using the Alphasmart Dana he started using in grade school) and the accommodations he's receiving (Organizational Therapy 40 minutes weekly, use of the Alphasmart to take notes or do homework [an exception to the school's no-electronics policy], time-and-a-half and a separate location for testing [they wanted him to have double time, but tests aren't his real problem]).
His having not provided the not-doing-homework notice from December is going to be an issue tonight, as is his daily claim that he's done all his homework. (Lying is a bad habit we want to get him out of, especially since he's so bad at it.)
Could be lots worse, but it's going to have to get better, too.
Basically, I heard what I expected to hear: he tests well, but has missed homework, has trouble with organization, and hasn't told me about the missed homework and its consequences. (His first report card of the year is locked in a library lost and found in Bronxville before we got to see it; long story.)
We had a productive discussion about strategies to deal with the issues (direct email contacts for M and me to all his teachers, requests for their websites with assignments if necessary, greater monitoring on our part, including seeing screenshots etc., actually using the Alphasmart Dana he started using in grade school) and the accommodations he's receiving (Organizational Therapy 40 minutes weekly, use of the Alphasmart to take notes or do homework [an exception to the school's no-electronics policy], time-and-a-half and a separate location for testing [they wanted him to have double time, but tests aren't his real problem]).
His having not provided the not-doing-homework notice from December is going to be an issue tonight, as is his daily claim that he's done all his homework. (Lying is a bad habit we want to get him out of, especially since he's so bad at it.)
Could be lots worse, but it's going to have to get better, too.
