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both my sons are in a private school and the cursive thing is just as bad. He gets everything marked off if his penmanship isn't perfect. so I work with him and tell the teacher he rewrote everything as he is only in 4th grade. But even with reading compehension if the penmanship isn't perfect, he gets a B instead of looking at did he read the story, was he remembering and comprehending it?etc. I have fought and fought this one teacher about it.
My youngest with ADHD has a fantastic teacher this year (1st grade) no IEP or 504 and no special ed teachers/classes. He is doing better but could take spelling test and get 100% if verbal but I honestly do not mind the 75-80% if writing. I dont' put the focus there but more during the evenings when we are working with him to try his best. kwim?
My son has always gotten a separate grade for spelling and handwriting on spelling tests.....but if the writing is bad enough, the word gets marked wrong because of the messiness....thankfully, once the meds got in place, Chase's cursive has gotten markedly better! It is neat, properly spaced, and beautiful....his printing is still atrocious, so I encourage cursive with him...Hmmm... as far as I know private schools in Nevada have no provision for special ed. I have suggested my son would do much better if he could take many of his tests orally and make handwriting a seperate thing. Basically the answer is we don't do it that way! It wouldn't be fair to the rest of the kids. Sometimes I am not sure what the goal is. Is it to teach my son social studies or see who can do the best following only one antiquated method?This year they spent 3 or 4 months on cursive. Now if she cannot read his cursive he gets his spelling test wrong! This is a very expenxisive private school. No cursive work was sent home. Just who was responsible to teach him cursive? And... is it a spelling test or a handwriting test? Grrr...
The good news is he is actually passing so far.
I personally have issues with cursive being counted against a child if they are not taught properly. Spelling tests should be spelling tests and not cursive tests. If cursive is so important to the teacher then I think she should give a grade for spelling and one for cursive.
As for private schools and provisions... I've heard both sides. Some have special education programs and some don't. I don't know more than that. I think it is a crime as some families pick private schools because of religious reasons. They are stuck in the middle if their child has learning disabilities or special needs and the school can't service them. I don't see why private schools can't offer more for their families with children who have special needs. I guess that many private schools feel that they have the right to discriminate between who they serve since families are paying large sums to the school. Sad but true?
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your comment on taking tests orally... is so true. We just identified a student has having dyslexic tendencies as stated by the state. We placed her under 504 until we can do further testing for special ed. This young lady is extremly smart. She can answer any question as long as she has the story read to her. She was allowed to take the test using a tape recorder. This allowed her to replay the story and listen to herself. She was very successful. Of course she had to be tested in a 1:1 setting and it took two days to give her the test as the state mandates 2 days for situations like this. The questions could be read to her and the answer choices. I am a firm believer that accomodations need to be made and that all learners have different learning styles.
Glad to hear that your son is experincing success regardless of his school's beliefs.
All public school regardless of the state are covered unde IDEA, so therefore have to have provisions for spec ed.
DD went to a private school, but we switched to public due to her school closing. I wish there was another one in our area, but it seems that there are not, or the waiting list is years long.......She gets the same IEP accomodations in public school as she did in private.
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My dd is in special ed. she is taken out of regular class for 2 hours each day and 1/2 hour for 2 days for speech. She is in public school. I am thrill she is taken out. When she was in first grade she just didn't understand some of the topics that were being discussed. In second she misses math with the class but that is made up in S ed. at her own level, as well as reading and spelling.
When it comes to other class projects, art. music and such... the teachers work around the kids that are pulled out for S ed. If she misses anything that they cover during her time away and she needs to know the information the teachers are wonderful about giving it to her and she has a lot of extra time to do the work. And go over with her on a one on one so she understand the work.
In her second grade class there are several children (6 0 that are pulled out for many reasons, such as S ed, speech, ESL (english as a second language) and sessions with the school psych.
My daughter attends a private school (PA) which does not allow outside services in the school. This has turned out to be a good thing for us, because she now qualifies to have in-residence therapy in our home instead. We have two TSS workers and a social worker that come into our home 10 hours per week. Our daughter, who is on the Daytrona patch does not have problems in school (her meds are working well during the day), but in the morning and the evening (when the meds are not in her system) she can spin out of control and is a totally different child at home. We are working on these issues and have made some progress. I think that if her school allowed assistance in her school that the issues we have at home would not be worked out. Our therapist told us that we did have to apply to our Social Security Office for disability and after we were turned down, we were instructed to apply for medical assistance in order to do this (in-home therapy).
my son is in a private school. he is 9 and has an iep and a 504 plan. The way they work it in our school is the special ed teacher from our school district comes to our school in the afternoon and pulls out the kids who need special ed.. my son finds this very disruptive and embarrasing. i'm wondering how it is done in a public school.. are there separate special ed classes, or are the special ed teachers in the classes with the reg. teachers? My son has not been diagnosed as anything specific just other health impaired because his adhd is hindering his learning...thanks
It really depends on your school district and each individual school. In our school we only pull those that are seriously behind academically. Most of these children come for extra help on projects or studying tests etc... otherwise they receive their help in the classroom by the special ed. teacher and other support teachers in the building. We have had great success in our building with this approach. We also have a behavior specialist for those that have issues that can be a hinderance to themself or others. She works in the classroom and does a pull out with these children on an as need basis. We've also begun doing this with our ESL students due to the success we have had. Because we don't make a big deal with this our students don't feel signaled out. Hopes this makes sense.