[/quote] I would ignore the teacher's take on it, and call a team meeting to get accommodations documented. Even though you won't need documentation for homeschooling, having that documentation in place now may help your ds in the future. You might want him to take gifted program testing (like through CTY etc) or high-stakes testing early, or you may need to have him take standardized testing through your state's homeschooling requirements - and if so, your ds might want/need accommodations. You'll also have it for a later time if he does go back into public school - and it may help make the process for getting accommodations then go easier.[/quote]
Polarbear, can you explain the process for getting accommodations for future standardized testing, also for the annual state standardized testing? I wonder if it would be possible to request extended time for the 4th grade writing portion of the standardized testing coming up next month.
The problem with meeting with the teacher to request documentation is that she really hasn't done much to accommodate DS. To my knowledge, she has only written out math problems on graph paper so that DS did not have to copy them from the book and give him extended time to finish tests (which she has recently started deducting points for). In addition, these "accommodations" are given to a handful of other students in the class. In my opinion, these accommodations are so minor compared to what she should have been doing for DS, especially in regards to writing projects, reports, daily written work, etc.
