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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 4444" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>Jennifer,</p><p></p><p>I don't think in h.s. it is more difficult to get a p.t. program bec. in middle school, you have to deal with "block scheduling" which means that all subjects aren't offered all the time. </p><p></p><p>In high school, if my difficult child doesn't go to a music boarding school, we will line up his subjects one right after the other and he will be gone by 12:30 or 1:00.</p><p></p><p>Transportation is a problem. I work flexabile hours and try most days to pick up difficult child and drive him 12 blocks to practice organ. He can make it on the bus (followed by a 2 block walk (oh my!!!) and will have to do this on Mondays as I have a conflict right now. So far, he has been very responsible about showing up to practice any time I haven't been able to drive (I call to make sure he has arrived at the first opportunity--makes him mad but too bad)LOL</p><p></p><p>I never think it is too late for anything! I would prefer SED to OHI as a lable if I were trying to get a half day program but you could probably use a physician's statement in much the same way: full days will damage difficult child health.</p><p></p><p>by the way, I got mine out of PE because he hates sports and it causes general problems (won't change in the locker room due to modesty, trasing, sexual harrassment, etc) but the easiest way to get him out of P.E. is to have psychiatrist point out that the ANXIETY associated with sustaining a hand injury while in P.E. far outweighs any benefit and leaves difficult child emotionally unavailable bec. the P.E. teachers "don't care" about his hands. We have him do Tae Kwon Do in the community (he passed a color belt test on Sat.-now a red stripe on his blue belt--easy child is a black belt for more than a year) bec. we can work with the TKD master to get aerobic excercise while protecting difficult child's hands. MrNo does not want to go for a black belt bec. as long as he doesn't, he never breaks boards with his hands--by arrangement--but he can't get a black belt without using his hands. His decison not to desire a black belt--not worth the risk. (I don't know what we would do if he wanted a black belt--but he doesn't ao why worry about a problem I don't have? <img src="http://www.conductdisorders.com/ubb/smile.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>THIS is the type of cooperation that we have gotten in the private sector to meet his needs. Only this year has the school come up with anything comparable in that they now acknowldge that MrNo is "different" and does not fit the mold. Now we have no mold.</p><p>It is in interesting but uncharted waters we sail.</p><p></p><p>I do not believe a child should have to demonstrate remarkable talent in order to not be pushed into a mold. I also believe with the right outside support, you can get just about any arrangement that makes sense under IDEA97, provided a child has a qualifying disability.</p><p></p><p>Since cost is always an issue, the school should thank you for offering to home school in an effort to make your difficult child's partial (if you could get it) school expreience successful. That's what we are doing--I mean paying for it --not the school--so by what right does one staff member at his school "<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />" about "unfair preferential treatment of MrNo?" (Their att'y told her to cool it--but I know her feelings on the subject and that's enough to annoy me a lot.)</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the reply and good luck with your quest for SpEd. Let me know if I can be of assistance.</p><p></p><p>------------------</p><p>Martie, mother of MrNo (Major Dep -in remission, ODD, not ADHD or Learning Disability (LD), musically very gifted; attends regular classes part-time; pursues music the rest of the day) and a 15 yo easy child daughter. husband of 22 yrs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 4444, member: 284"] Jennifer, I don't think in h.s. it is more difficult to get a p.t. program bec. in middle school, you have to deal with "block scheduling" which means that all subjects aren't offered all the time. In high school, if my difficult child doesn't go to a music boarding school, we will line up his subjects one right after the other and he will be gone by 12:30 or 1:00. Transportation is a problem. I work flexabile hours and try most days to pick up difficult child and drive him 12 blocks to practice organ. He can make it on the bus (followed by a 2 block walk (oh my!!!) and will have to do this on Mondays as I have a conflict right now. So far, he has been very responsible about showing up to practice any time I haven't been able to drive (I call to make sure he has arrived at the first opportunity--makes him mad but too bad)LOL I never think it is too late for anything! I would prefer SED to OHI as a lable if I were trying to get a half day program but you could probably use a physician's statement in much the same way: full days will damage difficult child health. by the way, I got mine out of PE because he hates sports and it causes general problems (won't change in the locker room due to modesty, trasing, sexual harrassment, etc) but the easiest way to get him out of P.E. is to have psychiatrist point out that the ANXIETY associated with sustaining a hand injury while in P.E. far outweighs any benefit and leaves difficult child emotionally unavailable bec. the P.E. teachers "don't care" about his hands. We have him do Tae Kwon Do in the community (he passed a color belt test on Sat.-now a red stripe on his blue belt--easy child is a black belt for more than a year) bec. we can work with the TKD master to get aerobic excercise while protecting difficult child's hands. MrNo does not want to go for a black belt bec. as long as he doesn't, he never breaks boards with his hands--by arrangement--but he can't get a black belt without using his hands. His decison not to desire a black belt--not worth the risk. (I don't know what we would do if he wanted a black belt--but he doesn't ao why worry about a problem I don't have? [img]http://www.conductdisorders.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] THIS is the type of cooperation that we have gotten in the private sector to meet his needs. Only this year has the school come up with anything comparable in that they now acknowldge that MrNo is "different" and does not fit the mold. Now we have no mold. It is in interesting but uncharted waters we sail. I do not believe a child should have to demonstrate remarkable talent in order to not be pushed into a mold. I also believe with the right outside support, you can get just about any arrangement that makes sense under IDEA97, provided a child has a qualifying disability. Since cost is always an issue, the school should thank you for offering to home school in an effort to make your difficult child's partial (if you could get it) school expreience successful. That's what we are doing--I mean paying for it --not the school--so by what right does one staff member at his school ":censored2:" about "unfair preferential treatment of MrNo?" (Their att'y told her to cool it--but I know her feelings on the subject and that's enough to annoy me a lot.) Thanks for the reply and good luck with your quest for SpEd. Let me know if I can be of assistance. ------------------ Martie, mother of MrNo (Major Dep -in remission, ODD, not ADHD or Learning Disability (LD), musically very gifted; attends regular classes part-time; pursues music the rest of the day) and a 15 yo easy child daughter. husband of 22 yrs. [/QUOTE]
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