What I'm finding is it is actually affecting their grading - taking off for doing a Haiku on his word processor rather than cutting out letters and pasting them on a paper - totally excruciating for a kid with fine motor coordination disorder and dysgraphia. Instead of the quality of the haiku (it was good), he got a C.
For math, after missing three days due to illness, I had him do less problems just to get through the load of homework in all his classes. He was penalized for not doing all the work - completely against his IEP. When I brought up the IEP, the teacher said he couldn't have it both ways - asking for harder classes but still wanting to be given a lighter work load.
Since his grades in 7th won't affect his application to college, I'm tempted to not go tilting at windmills and just leave it alone and get through the next few weeks. But another part of me wants to advocate for the sake of the kids in those teachers' classes in upcoming years ... but I'm not sure I have the reserves of energy it will take...
Thanks for the commiseration and advice.
