Hi all :) All three of you, I'm sure lol... Ah, I'm going to look back on this blog as a quarterly journal of life *giggle*.
Nicky started the year in grade three, after doing VERY well at the end of last year. It took a while for him to find his feet, but find them he did.
Sadly, this year, he lost them again. His teacher has a heart of gold, but sadly, no innate understanding of ASD, and so we have pulled Nicky out of school and I am now homeschooling him. I don't want to go into details of what happened, however I will say this - I have full respect for the teachers and principal at his school. We had a meeting with his teacher, the principal and his case manager at the Special Education Unit... they spent an hour trying to talk me out of it, and telling me how well he was doing at school. I spent five minutes explaining to them that kids with ASD often "suck it up" at school and then melt down at home, and that Nicky was doing this (as well as some other things). They then spent the next hour talking to me about how to make homeschooling work. Shh... teachers aren't supposed to support parents in homeschooling *wink*.
It's been taking us a couple of weeks to find our feet, however we are starting to get into the rhythm of it all.
As well as all this drama, I have found that I also have Aspergers. Now it really is a "family thing".
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