Re: Getting ready for 7th grade....(Roxanna) 7th grade disaster

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Roxanna,

Thanks for your reply. I feel like I have no one to talk to about this any more......................

I tried over and over again to work out transportation so my son could go to the school he wanted; the school of choice. By the last week of summer break, they had become so unworkable and just plain mean about the issue, that I had to remove him from the school. Then I had two choices. I could homeschool, which I had been doing all summer and keep him at home. Or move him to the new school in our district so we could get bussing. I wanted homeschooling. My own partner went against me, and his therapist went against me on it, and I was ridiculed by a teacher from his old school! So, with no family support, I put him in the public school, the new school. We went in ahead of time, met the teachers, walked thru the halls and found his classes, got him a special locker he could open, etc.

4 days into school it is a disaster! He's supposed to have help getting to his classes, and I received a note from one of the sp ed teachers saying how great he's doing...................... but they don't even see what I see. He is coming home with blank papers every day because he can't keep up with the work, and won't ask for help! I have had to sit and go thru the papers with him, line by line, to get it done. He's not making a single friend. He is falling behind! And I can't believe I received a note saying how great he's adjusted!

Last night he told me how much he hates himself and can't even look in the mirror. How he hates being different. How he hates school.

I wrote some ideas for him on how to ask for help during class, and sort of gave him an assignment to try it out. We'll see if he tried it.

I'm so worried, frustrated, angry at my family, and just depressed. I sleep all day. I have started anti depressants which aren't helping.

I just don't know what's next for us.

Not such a great update, huh?

Kathy