Hi all. Just to update you all, things are relatively bad with school again. Now the attorneys are involved - the constant disability based harassment particularly by paraprofessionals (aids) and "specials teachers" is a continuing problem as is a principal who simply chooses not to believe that any of it happens and, therefore, does nothing to stop it. Literally, in the midst of a battle over this, my son's regular teacher took away my son's scribing accommodations during a test and told him needed to type so he "could practice his typing" and then complained to me about how long it took him(trying to make the case I think that he has attention issues). Unbelievable. Apparently they really do not get it. Or they hate my kid and me and so they just seek to make things so much more difficult. Not sure why they think this sort of thing is okay. Really not sure.
Anyway, on to my question for y'all. Remember, I had asked previously here
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/topics/183217/1.html about the school's proposal to do push-in occupational therapy during DS's math class. I declined and did post how I declined. Oddly they are still pushing for it. They are telling me that DS would not actually be doing OT during this session but the OT would just be "observing" so that he could then use that info for the once a week pull-OT session. I am really befuddled as to how this would help anything and why they want to do this. I do think we may need more OT but I think we need a separate OT pull-out to teach DS typing.
Can I have y'all's opinion on this? Should I consent to the push-in? Why do they want this - I can not understand what it will accomplish? what am I missing?
