Re: Re: Primordial dwarfism and other things/jodi

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i have a feeling that this canpainy had something to do with the fact that they

did not test last year. my school district is split in two the bigger town is

about 5,ooo people and our town is about 500 lebanon has pre-k throught 12 and

ld and even bd in fact we get many of the other towns problem kids in lebanon if

you would like to know more about lebanon look up mckendree collage it is pretty

famouse like first collage is southern illinio. but anyway in summerfield where

ilive it is part of the same school districe we have k-5 here and only one ld

room to serve the whole of summerfield school. this class only formed for the

first time last school year so going into next year it will be in its thired

year. as a teacher you know your children can't be more then 4 years apart. so i

don't think summerfield pushes this issue due to the fact that would mean they

would end up shipping these kids inthere younger years off to lebanon.did that

make cence i hope it did so that give you

background.

witch bring me to how this year works i don't know how max is with change in his

ruetin but jacob is horrid it really throughs him if you know what i mean. when

we had our first meading to deturman what would happen to jacob per his class

till t he end of the year. it was discussed to place him is lebanon where he

know almost no kids much less there rutin their.

because this was his second year in this class of first gread same teacher he

knew her and the matieral so he was standing at a b avarage so i said we work

onthe little things until the end if the year then next year wicth i know he

will fall flat they could send him to all day ld room. i really feel this is

best for him he does so much better in smaller setting and more one on one and

he loves this ld teacherhe forget alot of stuff but he never forget her class

time

so we have a meading with her to see what next year will bring i hope we are

alll looking out for the same thing for jacob. small slow morestrucher and more

one on one will do him great good. i fact at the first iep we have the speach

teacher witch had him all year thought we were all nuts as to how we thought he

behaved and preformed. she did not get this with him well of course not she has

like 5 kids at a time and is really one on one this just proves my point i am

really looking forword to seeing how the ld teacher is boing with him and how

well or not he si doing in his class time with her

sorry so lond but i thought it would make more cence if i gave you a pic of how

our distric is

if i need more advice i will surly be wighting back to you

cara mom to jacob thanks

Jodi Zwain wrote:

Cara,

Just be careful with the reeval. With Pres. Bush's No Child Left

Behind, the special ed services are being changed around a lot.

Children who really should be spending their days in more of an LD

class are being forced into the mainstream with in-class support.

This teacher who offers in-class support can have up to 6 kids to

supervise. At least that is the law in NJ. If you want to be

in the LD class for longer periods, make sure you make that known.

I'll help you if you need it once you have the conference. You do

not have to sign the papers right away. There is a window of about 2

weeks. If you don't sign, the IEP goes into effect as soon as that

time is up. If you put your concerns in writing and they agree to

make changes, then there will be time to do that.

Jodi Z

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