double standard?

it could be 100% fallout of someone else’s issue that actually has nothing to do with your son. They had to make room for someone else’s difficulty and changing your child’s schedule worked for them in the big picture.

I would be ‘on alert’ for the future-if it happened again next year, I d step in and say “hey, are we on the easy-to-move list?” But, for now, I would let it go.

It is also possible that this teacher was a stickler for spelling and was murmuring questions about your son based on that alone-in which case, good riddance!!

JMO

He is doing soo well just dont let him get discouraged by the system

Last year, a similar thing happened to my son in math (Middle School). He liked the teacher and was doing well in the class. The guidance counselor phoned me and said that that were transferring him out of the class because they were forming a new class that had just 15 kids. This class would better suit his learning style. I liked the old teacher, so I went and sat in on the new class. Yes, it had 15 kids, but that was because they transferred half the kids out of the class because the teacher could not handle the kids. The class was very chaotic, noisy, and very little was accomplished during the class I sat in on. I couldn’t hear the teacher speak and I couldn’t read his handwriting on the overhead. For a kid with ADD/LD, this class certainly was not a better fit for his learning style. After the class was over, I went down to the guidance counselor and demanded that my son be returned to the original class. After a few weeks he was.

Based on this experience, I wonder if the school isn’t trying to balance numbers between classes or if they aren’t trying to add a few higher achievers to the class. Ask your son what he thinks of the new class and the teacher. If it isn’t a good fit, see if you can get the scheduled changed.

LJ

Ah yes. Lets subtly put all the lower achievers together. I am not saying this is the case but it is one possibility.

My son does much better in the more challenging regular class. He is happier and higher functioning there. At first they didn’t want to put him there. The principal worried that he would take time away from the other kids. I told her to send anything home that he can’t finish is class.

It has worked out well from our end. I know they would still rather have him in the other class.

I got an e-mail from my sons reading skills teacher, he stated that my sons orginal language teacher had come to him with concerns she had about my son being in her class. Since she went to him I am assuming it has something to do with vocabulary and poor discrimination of sounds. He said, he, the language department chair, and both teachers involved got together to chose a course of action. The solution they came up with was changing his class. He said the orginal teacher would be getting with me about the concerns so he did not tell me what they were. My point is why was I not involved? Does not the parent have a say. Why did they not speak to the student so he was not worried he did something wrong. He spent the whole night fretting no matter what I told him. I am concerned that my sons self-esteem might take a blow. I plan on going to the school in person and talking to them about how they approached the situation. For the most part they have been good but this was just not a right course of action.

I would take the oppurtunity to talk to the teacher of the class he was moved out of before talking to the others becuase you are more likely to get the real story that way.

Helen

Sounds like they had an IEP meeting without you. That is a no no!

If I was writing a letter to them I would say, “As his parent and advocate I need to be involved in any changes to his educational plan and that not allowing this is in violation of his rights.”

I spoke with the teacher who asked him to be moved. Her reason for requesting his removal from class: he was having difficulty staying focussed in her class and she felt he was having difficulty keeping up with the assignments. She went to the reading skills teacher (only LD teacher he has) to see if he had a resource room to help him with assignments. When she found out he did not she felt it in his best interest to move him to the slower moving class. Same material covered just at a much slower rate. In otherwords he will over learn mechanics like he has in the past. When I asked my son about the class he stated the reason he had difficulty focusing in this class is all the teacher did was lecture for 55 minutes. He has an auditory processing disorder and finds that to be difficult to attend to. He said he liked the new class better because the teacher teaches using activities and giving demonstrations. Last night he worked on catching up the new teachers assignments. She is requiring him to catch up on the journal entries the class did the 1st 2 weeks. She has a topic each day for them that they must write 1/2 page about. She also has a daily oral language task (a sentence with numerous mistakes that must be fixed by the child). He worked on these tasks with no problems. Sounds like the first teacher and student were just a poor fit. The whole point of the post was that she could ask him to be removed but he if he were the one to ask a big deal would of been made of it.

but I understand your distress at being left out of the loop!

I think our kids, CAPD dx or not, seem to do better in active learning situations

Im thinking of homeschooling my 11 yr old in the fall. Big brother informed him that while I am at my part time job he would just be stuck doing workbooks and software(which to my older son is like punishment)

Blakes response -“Good! I’d rather be doing something than just listening all the time!”

Out of the mouths of babes….