daughter's psych eval finished yesterday

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Oh my goodness, what is wrong with these people.

I must say that I do not personally know any school age teacher who is there "just for the money". All the ones I know are there for the children. I would understand if they made great money or something but I don't think your salary is all that great until you become some sort of college professor or something.

Seriously, why are these people trying to hold children back from being the best they can be? I think these people have forgotten why they got into the field they chose in the first place and need to re-evaluate their carer decisions.

Haha, wow, yeah, just let me rant for you here... I just don't get it. I'm a pretty placid individual, but some things do get to me.

I had an independent evaluation done for CAPD when my daughter was entering 6th grade. The therapist found that she was at 10% functioning for her age group, never mind her IQ. The school said they wouldn't accept the evaluation since they didn't do it. And they wouldn't evaluate her. I think a lot of it is money. She never did get any services or help for her ADD diagnosis, in spite of an IEP. She only got an IEP because she was gifted, but I snuck a few other things in there. Didn't work. She had teachers like the one you describe in grade school, so thank GOODNESS for her gifted teacher. She was there three hours a day. Her 4th grade teacher started the day by making the kids copy a passage from the board! Aargh. Could never get her evaluated for dysgraphia either. In 5th grade, the teacher hated her, hated being asked to accommodate her, so we "home schooled" and she just went for her gifted math and language arts. What a great year that was. Unfortunately, I had to work and couldn't keep it up, plus she thought she wanted to go back to school.

I hope things get better for your daughter. I hate to say it, but things get worse in mid-school, at least in our experience.

we unfortunately know that middle school is atrocious-btdt with AS son...........
here's the latest: the principal emails me to say that he wants to send referral paperwork home with daughter so that she can be referred to the Child Study Team again........AAAAAAAAAAA....I bantered back and forth with him about this, and his final response was: I will put in the referral that they should be ruling out a language exceptionality. we don't evaluate for ADD, hypotonia or dysgraphia............
I don't think he's even stopped to figure out what dysgraphia is !....oh bother..........
why is it always up to me to give them the information they should be seeking?.....I couldn't sleep, but did find very interesting information on hypotonia & hypermobility.........i'm sure now more than ever that daughter is hyperflexible. now if i could just get the school to do what they're supposed to do-maybe i could sleep

((((((((((((((((((((((((((ster))))))))))))))))))))))))) keep at it, that is all you can do.

Middle schools are the worst. I've recently decided that, lol. Based on my own personal totally unscientific observation. They are under too much pressure from too many different sides, and they have to do all that on top of dealing with kids who are 90% walking hormones by 7th grade.

I just got off the phone with the principal. We had a long discussion about my frustration over this process & what I believe is stalling tactics on their part.....i said that they keep saying that they'll evaluate, but then time goes by & pretty soonn it will be June.......yesterday he sent out referral paperwork for me to fill out & return- i returned it today. now he wants to send paperwork so that they can talk to the dr that did the eval...... i am at my wits end.
stall, stall, stall...............i discussed the discrepancies between daughter's papers that she brings home & her grades- oh, yeah- she got her report card-A's and B's...hah! i'm so confused. how can she be getting good grades when i see paper after paper that is 60's, 70's...
there was no comment on that. it figures.