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Hey there
Jennifer & Thorn
Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 01:29 PM -
Discipline in Schools
Eileen Bailey
Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 07:14 PMHeather
It is good to hear from you again and I am glad you had a good holiday. Your story about your son reminds me of a time when my son was in high school. He did something (I don't even remember what) and was given a one day in school suspension. During the suspension he needed to sit still, complete work and he was not allowed to speak with anyone else, even during lunch period.
Needless to say, he wasn't able to make it through the day being still and so another day was added, and then another. On the third day I went in to talk with the principal and addressed the issue that it was too much to ask a student with hyperactivity to sit still for 8 hours per day. We could have gone on adding days to his in school suspension indefinately if days were added for not sitting still.
The principal, luckily, agreed and had him taken out of the in school suspension and put back into class. The next time I updated his Section 504, I asked for discipline other than 8 hours of sitting still.
It sounds as if your counselor agrees and maybe you can have discipline information added when you update his IEP for next year.
You seem to be right on this one and have taken care of it quickly.
Let us know how it all works out.
Eileen
re: Discipline in Schools
Heather & Kaleb
Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 12:07 PMthanks for the comments jennifer & thorn & u as well eileen,
it ended up that i took my sons appt, w/the counselor to discuss what i should do about this issue cause he knows as well as i do that i could of shot my mouth off to the school but on this occasion i knew i couldn't so i talked w/him instead. my son didn't come to the appt. cause w/situations like this the counselor & i can get more accomplished in a shorter amount of time w/out my son being at the appt. he did end up talking w/his teacher & a resolution was made (but not the same one as w/ur son eileen) but i will be putting that into his iep b4 next school year cuz my sons iep is done in january & we had just did the meeting about 1-2 wks b4 the incident w/my son took place, i am hoping to impliment it 2 the begining of the school year next year but if i have my way he won't be going back to that school, he'll most likely be going to the other grade school in my town that i want him at right now but the counselor said to hold off on that for now & try what he had discussed w/my sons teacher. he was going to discuss it w/me @ my next appt. w/him that was on the 4th of this mnth (we ended up doing a 10-15 minute phone conversation/appt. a day or 2 later) cause the day of my appt. the 4th he had 2 emergency situations that day he had to deal w/that where more important than my appt, i understood where he was comning from & i already knew what we where going to discuss anyways. so everything has been a whole lot better for my son @ school w/the other kids in the same age range as him & he hasn't gotten into any serious trouble since the incident @ the begining of january. take care - heather & kaleb
re: Discipline in Schools
Heather & Kaleb
Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 12:07 PMthanks for the comments jennifer & thorn & u as well eileen,
it ended up that i took my sons appt, w/the counselor to discuss what i should do about this issue cause he knows as well as i do that i could of shot my mouth off to the school but on this occasion i knew i couldn't so i talked w/him instead. my son didn't come to the appt. cause w/situations like this the counselor & i can get more accomplished in a shorter amount of time w/out my son being at the appt. he did end up talking w/his teacher & a resolution was made (but not the same one as w/ur son eileen) but i will be putting that into his iep b4 next school year cuz my sons iep is done in january & we had just did the meeting about 1-2 wks b4 the incident w/my son took place, i am hoping to impliment it 2 the begining of the school year next year but if i have my way he won't be going back to that school, he'll most likely be going to the other grade school in my town that i want him at right now but the counselor said to hold off on that for now & try what he had discussed w/my sons teacher. he was going to discuss it w/me @ my next appt. w/him that was on the 4th of this mnth (we ended up doing a 10-15 minute phone conversation/appt. a day or 2 later) cause the day of my appt. the 4th he had 2 emergency situations that day he had to deal w/that where more important than my appt, i understood where he was comning from & i already knew what we where going to discuss anyways. so everything has been a whole lot better for my son @ school w/the other kids in the same age range as him & he hasn't gotten into any serious trouble since the incident @ the begining of january. take care - heather & kaleb
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I'm sorry to hear that the school has treated ur son so unfairly. I hope it's able to resoloved. schools should be trained on how to handle issuse like that. no matter if they have had a child like that. I think ur right i think it was to much. yeah he may have dropped his packpack and it acctendely hit someone but giving him 3days is to much. it's not like he started a fight or anything. i hope ur counsler is able to help u and ur son. they must be informed on how to handle it the next time. good luck and keep us posted. hugs