Should schools drop some classes to make school easier?

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The card system is a great idea! I'm going to copy it and send it to my son to mention it to Z's teacher....He had another good day today! That's like 2 in a row! We needed that since last week he actually bit his aid. By the way, what is IEP?

heres some information on IEP, also if you live in the US i strongely suggest that sign up for a iep, i'm 27 and have aspergers. IEP helped me get on social security disability and get support.

IEP is: Individualized Education Program- IEP information

n the United States, an Individualized Education Program, commonly referred to as an IEP, is mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Public schools are required to develop an IEP for every student with a disability who is found to meet the federal and state requirements for special education. [1]. The IEP must be designed to provide the child with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). The IEP refers both to the educational program to be provided to a child with a disability and to the written document that describes that educational program.

Key considerations in developing an IEP include assessing students in all areas related to the suspected disability(ies), considering access to the general curriculum, considering how the disability affects the student’s learning, developing goals and objectives that make the biggest difference for the student, and ultimately choosing a placement in the least restrictive environment..

IEP

Quite frankly, the problem is that he is probably under-stimulated. The classes are not academically challenging, but rather exhausting because most of the work he has to do is busywork provided by the state-sponsored baby-sitter from hell known as American public schools.

I think physical education and sports should be dropped for autistic children if they are struggling in those areas but doing better in others. Physical education classes can be a special form of torture for kids who are bad at sport or who just aren't interested in it and who would rather read a book instead.

dongiovanni,

I agree about the busywork. I used to hate to do nonsense work. We had these worksheets that could easily get lost if a student wasn't diligent in keeping them together. I used to do puzzles and word searches for fun. I thought using them in the classroom in place of more substantial work was a waste of time.

My son has an extremely difficult time doing anything on his own. He would just sit there at his school desk and zone out. This is a piece of autism for my son. If the school would have given him a 1:1 aide, he would have done the work at school. But, they would not give him one since he's not learning disabled. They expected him to buck up. They let him sit there, not doing the work. He would act up to get attention. They excluded him from music, science, and PE often because he was disruptive.

We're homeschooling now. It's kind of weird, but I have to sit next to him for him to do any work. I don't have to participate or interact with him, but if I'm not sitting next to him...he's lost in his own world like he's overwhelmed with whatever is in front of him.

I would not take your grandson's reluctance to work as a sign of learning disability. Could be autism or ADD.

I have the same problem with my son. We were able to get him an aide for math, but the teacher has stay right on top of him to get him to do any work at school, and work at home I have to be sitting next to him either, even then he has trouble staying focused. I bribe him with M&Ms

we were refused an aide for our 6 y/o because he isn't failing yet. He can't do his work unless the teacher has her hand on him or he is sitting right beside her. He can't even get ready to go outside w/o attention but with attention he excels. Very frustrating from our end! When he has homework he will do it if we are sitting beside him, but if we walk away he is in his own world. I have thought about homeschooling but he would not have the social aspect of school (social is a huge deficit for him) and he really enjoys going to school. Last week he came home upset because he had so much work to do at home. I struggle with that too. He needs down time but I am not in favor of dropping any classes just yet. I agree that should be a last resort. Does your grandson have a FT aide?

our daughter was refused help because she wasn't doing bad enough either......terribly frustrating.

My son has better peer interactions since we began homeschooling. That was a surprise to me. He made some actual friends through homeschooling. I'm guessing this is because the homeschool groups are smaller. There are a lot of homeschoolers in my area and you can always find some other people for activities. Many of the homeschoolers have a child on the spectrum.

My son liked going to public school, until the second grade. A few boys started teasing him everyday and he thought those kids were his friends even still.

I don't know the whole situation or what classes are being dropped. But this sounds like a foolish idea. He's being lazy, so the school is lowering their requirements for him?

This year I was able to get it stated in our IEP that I have the right to refuse to do homework if it is too much, or to take a few days to do it,ot just partially do it, it is my discretion. Down time is critical for my son too.

CRACK, are you trolling? How about a bit more compassion for people who are struggling through NO fault of their own?