did you get referred/sent to a special ed. school??

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I was forced to go to a special ed. school since the beginning of 8th grade. It really stunk. We have to sit with our class at lunch and teachers sat with us. Some years I was the only girl in my class and the most kids I had in my class was 9 or 10. We have "quiet area" and "timeout". if you are rude or do something the teachers don't like, they send you to quiet area. It's a carpeted corner of the room. You get 3 chances to "process" with the staff and if they don't feel that you're ready, they send you to timeout which is a big version of quiet area and located in the inschool suspension room. You never get an out of school suspension and on inschool you aren't allowed to talk to anyone, and usually you're not off ISS until you get your work done and write a restitution, a paper that the teachers tell you what to write.
We had "earned event" on friday, a planned activity that you earned by getting all your work done and getting your percentage. Every day we have to take home a "daily sheet" that the teachers wrote about our behavior. Our parents had to sign it. And every week we had group, where kids talk about their problems. I used to be in it but got kicked out because it " wasn't helping". I was disappointed because then I couldn't talk to people and get out of doing my work. Worst part about the school is that if they say you're not allowed to talk to another student, you can't talk to them. It has happened to me numerous times. O, and I've had a bunch of suspensions over trading things on the bus, which has a camera and a bus aide.


So has any one else had to go to a special school?

Ouch, that sounds horrible! I'm very sorry to hear they put you through that. It doesn't sound like there was an ounce of friendliness in it. Talk about micro-managing!

You sound perfectly intelligent to be in regular ed. Were you labeled a behavior problem? That was the main reason I got sent to a special ed class at a regular school at the end of the 4th grade. I got out of it my freshman year of high school. I had a good teacher for middle school but the special ed teacher in 5th grade sucked and I hardly learned anything.

The special school I went to would seem like a paradise compared to yours. If I had gone to your school I would've killed myself. After being in an I.E.P Program for most of grade school I was sent to a hands on trade school for learning disabled children. My high school had a lot of problem kids, but the classes were fun and the teachers were nice. That school turned my life around I went from not being able to read to getting an award for creative writing because the teachers let me use my special interests as a tool for learning. The classes there were aimed at getting teens into apprenticeships for all different kinds of industries. I took baking and culinary arts but I ended up pursuing more academic courses at a regular high school in my final two years.

I've had behavior problems since I was a toddler. I didn't get my PDD-NOS diagnosis until age 12, when I had a neuropsychological test at the hospital. I was referred to special ed. in 4th grade. It only was in it part time, like when I'd get frustrated in class they'd send me to that room which was kind of weird... but I had seen a school social worker for behavior problems since first grade. I didn't start to take an interest in other kids until around the 5th or 6th grade cuz I was pretty much glued to the T.V. or my gameboy. My problems got worse, and in middle school I had all special ed. classes except encores, where I was disruptive and usually late. ( I had an aide assigned to me since 6th grade, a teacher who followed me everywhere) So I was getting suspended practically every day, because I was quick to anger and really immature for my age. My mom got an advocate who told the school it wasn't a good idea for me to attend for awhile, and I wasn't getting along with Mom, so I demanded to live with Dad for 6 months.
My dad has worse anger problems then me, plus he thinks men are superior, so I moved back to my moms after the 6 months were up.
So ever since they had forced me to go to the special school because of severe behavior problems ( not doing work, having an attitude, disrespectful to teachers, etc.)
My anger toned down alot about age 14 and the only rules I seemed to break were talking to people they told me I could'nt talk to and stuff that I'd do on the bus.

i have been in schools like that since first grade. i deal with it quite well because i have anxiety attacks in crowds and the teachers cannot punish me. by they cannot punish me i mean that there is no way to make me move, i refuse to move, they cannot touch me, and its not worth the trouble for them. acting like that may not go well with your parents though so i don't advise it. i have been to 8 schools through the years and i gotta say it could be much worse.

They tried to make me go to a special school, but I went to a normal one anyway.

A school specifically designed for aspies would be a good thing especially if it included special aspie training. Unfortunately, most of these special ed schools aren't tailor made for aspies.

I attended a special ed preschool from when I was three until I was five years old (1995 - 1997). My mom enrolled me there because, at the time, I wasn't talking normally, or something like that.

I mostly have good memories from when I went to special ed preschool. My teacher was really nice and I got along well with most of my classmates.

I spent two and a half years there, my last being the year I should have started kindergarten. As a result, I started regular ed kindergarten at age six, and since then, I've been a year older than my classmates every year until I graduated from high school.

I was forced to go to a school for the Emotionally Disturbed in 8th grade and then was transferred to a program for the Emotionally Disturbed at the local High School during Freshman Year.

EDIT: And Jessi my school sounds pretty much exactly like the one you went too only the staff where allowed to restrain us if we had meltdowns and etc.

They did that to kids in my school too, I wasn't one of the aggressive ones so it hasn't happened to me.

I was for part of grade one, but they couldn't deal with my some of my other issues, so I was home schooled til the 7th grade

They sound really patronising.

I was referred to special ed in... lets see Grade 6, I think. But that was the only time.