My son is 18, a Sr. in high school. Need help with IEP problems. My son is also a baseball player. Colleges have been calling him, but we don’t know what to do. My son is having trouble with his studies, but the school says they are doing what they should. Would like to know if anyone else has had this problem. ???
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I guess its just that the stress of everything is building. The school has not given him the help he has needed. Now he is ineligible in baseball, has been now for 2 weeks. As of yesterday his grades are up yet he was still turned in ineligible. The teacher tried to change it after she turned it in because he was caught up, but they wouldn’t change it. Yet they still do not do what is needed. I feel he would be doing fine in his classes if he was given hand written assignments and extra time for reports from the start of his classes. I should add that the reason for the college coaches calling is that my son is very good at baseball. He can throw a perfect strike at 93mph. I feel he is being hurt since they have not helped him, not only now, but also with the colleges. My son wants to learn, to go to college, to better his education, and to play baseball.
Thanks.
Your post is not entirely clear as to what the problems are. If I read your post right and your son is a senior in high school in April, then he has little time left to run on his IEP and by the time you’d get working on that, the school year would be over.
So would your need for IEP, I think. While your son will live under the protection of the American Disabilities Act as long as he needs to, I don’t think that mandates that colleges must write him an IEP.
If colleges have been calling your son, they are very interested. Did he make application to any of those colleges?
If you’re interested in checking out the colleges that are interested in your son, you could do this. Get a copy of the K&W Guide to Colleges for Learning Disabled Students and see what it says about the colleges that have called you and other colleges it recommends as being good for kids with learning differences. You might also try Princeton Review’s Best 331 Colleges in America for colleges not included in the K&W Guide.