charlie: An Update

[charliesmum]

I don't have much to say that is in anyway interesting, but I haven't posted in awhile, so here I am.

For those who care, Charlie is really enjoying 8th grad so far. We did have a couple of hiccoughs in the beginning, though.

When I had his IEP meeting, I mentioned that the two things he really wanted to do was wood shop and band.

When he got his schedule, guess what was his 8th period class? It was a 'turtorial'. For Math. Which he's actually good at.

So, I emailed the principal, and said, broadly, WTF? Where are the classes he wanted that I specifically mentioned?

Someone called me and we got it sorted - Wood shop 1st half of the year, band 2nd half.

But then the band teacher had issues with this, because band is a full year thing, and Charlie would be too far behind or something. Or it wouldn't be fair. I don't know. I mean, they start all new songs in the spring, so it's not like Charlie would have to catch up, and this is a child who memorises all the scores. But whatever.

So he'll just do wood shop all year, I figure, but no, wood shop is only half a year.

What it came down to was, Charlie had to make a choice between band and wood shop. He chose wood shop. And now he needs to pick a 2nd term class. He's leaning towards art.

My grandfather (for whom Charlie is named) did work working as a hobby. When we were talking about his choice, and he decided to do wood shop he said, "I'm doing it for Great-Grandfather."

Comments

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

How comes, if Charlie is an existing student, that you have to wait until the beginning of the semester to decide what classes he takes ? I'm just curious.

I mean, if he's already there, isn't it more efficient to sort out the next semester's schedule at the end of the term before ?

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

That was actually part of the whole problem. We talked about his schedule last spring, but for some reason they didn't put him in the classes we'd discussed.

Don't know why, except for the fact that wood shop and band were both for the same time period. Why they didn't do one or the other, I don't know.

Sometimes it is just exhausting, let me tell you.

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

It will probably always be exhausting because at each stage, school and then whatever Charlie goes on to next, will challenge you both too. I don't know the US system, but I know what special needs parents have to deal with in the UK.

[verity-forsythe.livejournal.com]

"I'm doing it for Great-Grandfather."

*melts* Oh, the darling.

[drakonlily.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he'll love it! Maybe you can get him a tutor for music courses or an independent study. :)

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

I was in orchestra all through high school, and actually I don't think someone starting second semester would be able to catch up. Besides the lack of practice, there's also music theory to learn, and they'd have to reassign all the stand partners.