Cathy, I hope all goes well. So far so good, right? I can only imagine how nervous you must be. Have you talked to the 1st grade teacher yet?
Oh gosh Cathy, don't even think about that possibility! It's way too painful. Our story had an ultimate "happy ending", but 3 weeks after DS was moved midyear from 3rd to 4th (a complete move, that included giving his desk to a new student), we had his IEP meeting for the following year.
In that meeting, Powers That Be, who had NEVER met DS decided he'd be placed in 4th grade again for the fall. Very little discussion...end of meeting. The primary reasoning was "for DS's emotional and social best interests." The principal was just as surprised as I was, and the GT teacher wasn't even invited! I have NEVER been so mad in my life, and I literally could not sleep for agonizing over it all. This in turn initiated our court proceedings that ended very well for DS, and the school at least knows now that I mean business. I don't know what they thought I'd do, but they seemed totally caught off guard by my legal paperwork.
Wow Dottie. Yeah holding him back (I am sure that's how he would take it) would do wonders for his emotional and social development. Gee. What were they thinking?
I had no idea you went through something like that. I understood from some of the posts that you had to play the big card - legal proceedings and such, but I never knew what really happen. Do you care to repeat the details? You don't want to me to dig through all the old posts, do you?
