Advice to myself as a child: run away.
Advice to myself with DS ready to enter public school: while remaining polite, be much more aggressive, and always ask for deadlines and specifics when accommodations are offered. Don't accept a plan which delegates too much planning and implementation to a new teacher after the next school year begins, especially if said teacher is not at end-of-year meetings. Ask for criteria used to select DS's teachers, instead of trusting that a choice was appropriate. Insist on a retest immediately if DS is rushed through MAP testing and not given pencil or paper. Engage an outside IQ and achievement tester earlier, instead of wasting the entire kindergarten year. Engage an educational consultant earlier.
