Sunday January 25th 2008

     Hi Everyone, sorry it's been a while since I last left a SharePost, we have been doing good & we had a good X-Mas & New Year's.  I have been having some issues w/the school in the way they disciplined my son a couple wks ago, so I told Brian (our counselor/psychologist that we see) about what had happened & he's now going to be contacting his teacher & finding out why he was disciplined that way.  I told Brian what my son did & how he was disciplined & he agrees w/me that it was too much & that it should of only been the one day (the day the incident happened cause it happened b4 school started that day).  Basically my son got a 3 day in-school suspension for a very minor thing compared to what another student did to his classmate (the other student was in 1st grade), but our school has a zero tolerence policy for physically hurting another stundent/teacher/volunteer no matter what grade level the student is in.  The other student had bit another one of his classmates & all he got was he couldn't watch a movie his class was watching & he left a bite mark on the little girl.  My son purposely dropped his backpack over a balcony & it accidently hit someone when it fell & my son got a 3 day in-school suspension for that & cause he didn't get all his school work done on that Friday of the incident he had to sit in the office again on the following Monday & then since he still didn't get all the work done on Monday he had to sit in the Spec. Ed classroom on Tuesday & that was the end of the draw for me & I called Brian that day when my son got home from school (I was home already cause I left work early that day) & then Brian called me back & we kept the appt. that was setup for my son this last Tues. cause we had discussed @ my appt earlier this month about cancelling my sons appt., my son didn't go to his appt. cause then Brian & I could get more accomplished w/out Kaleb being there.  Brian will be calling my son's teacher again 2morrow cause she didn't receive the release form yet by last Friday & she couldn't say much to him about the incident or Kalebs behavior @ school, so he had his office resend the release form so that he could speak w/her 2morrow & his office was to contact him when the school got the release form on Friday.  I then will have to have a meeting w/my son's teachers about how he needs to be disciplined & what actions need to be taken for certain behaviors cause this school doesn't really know how to deal w/a child such as mine & depending on how all this plays out & goes will depend on whether or not I transfer my son to a different elementary school here in Monroe, but we (Brian & I) are going to give the school he's @ now a chance to change things & if they don't then I will be transferring my son to the other elementary school we I think he would be better off.  But since I don't have a vehicle @ this present time we are going to try & work something out w/the school he goes to now cause the other school's on the other side of town.  If this doesn't work out by the time I file my taxes here w/in the next couple of wks & find a vehicle once I get my taxes back then I will be transferring my son, so the school he goes to now has about a mnth or 2 to change the way they deal w/my sons behaviors @ school that are not acceptable @ school.  Work's going okay so far for me even though I still hate it, cause I am getting bored w/it cause it's to much repetition & I am not used to that I am used to moving around & doing different things thru out the work day not the same thing over & over again everyday of work.  There's no other place here in Monroe that would give me the flexibility & the hours that I have @ my present job cause if there was I would have already applied for it.  Wll I hope everyone's doing good & I hope to do another SharePost sooner than I did this time.  Take Care --- Heather & Kaleb