Momma Bear: Are you going to be doing the home schooling supplements at home or at school?
Both hopefully. I'm asking for a certain number of extra days each month during school hours for 'field trips' not to be counted as absent days. My justification is that they simply don't have the training nor the materials to teach him certain things he is ready for. Extended muliplication and long division at 6 yrs old for example. The materials alone are thousands of dollars. So this way the school doesn't have to invest the money.
We have some great private schools in the area that do have the resouces and training. So I'm going to try and take him for lessons once a month and trade off a day of volunteer work there. That way he gets appropriate presentations and the school doesn't even have to do anything at all. And once I get trained on the materials I can then help him make the transition to the way a public school would teach him.
Ideally the homeschooling portion will be in the form of filling in gaps first, then moving him forward as needed. So I guess I'll have to wait and see how the IEP goes. Right now I'm basically teaching him 1/2 each day just to keep him moving forward appropriately until we get it all worked out.
