As you may know by now, I have a seventeen year old son who is severely autistic. Occasionally he has violent outbursts at school. He goes to a regular high school and is, for the most part, integrated into regular classes, though he does have a one-on-one EA with him at all times.
Today, when he had one of his outbursts, the school called to let me know. To their credit, this year (it’s new) they have an “in-school suspension room,” where he goes when he misbehaves. Up until this year, I’ve had to pick him up and bring him home for the remainder of the day. The exception this time was that he had pinched his EA, and apparently they don’t put up with physical contact. So they sent him home.
Apparently there are many things the high schools don’t put up with. The “in-school suspension room” is reserved for special needs students. In the case of infractions carried out by mainstream students, such as skipping school, the usual punishment is a three day “at home” suspension.
Yeah.
Maybe it’s the new method of teaching irony in English class.
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October 2, 2013 at 11:55 am
Isn’t it ironic…… break the rule by not attending school and then get three days off school…… result………. egh!!
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October 2, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Exactly. It’s like, “You want a day off? Here! Take three!”
Crazy…
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October 2, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Shish!!
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October 1, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Homeschooling sounds better all the time. Besides the social ostracism.
I hate the “if you don’t do it this way, even if the answer is right, it is wrong.”. That’s bullshit. More or less, “here is the way we teach it to the stupid kids, have to dumb down the smarter ones”.
There are people out there that can do complex mathematics and algebra in their head, and they don’t need a bunch of waste-time bullshit rules to do it either.
I could only imagine how much worse it is with an autistic kid.
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October 2, 2013 at 1:31 pm
It’s all about keeping the sheep in their place. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I might say it’s the government’s way to make sure, from an early age, people learn to not go against the system. The drawback to homeschooling is the lack of socialization, which is essential to the autistic. If my son had his own way, he wouldn’t see anyone, ever.
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October 2, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Given that we were conspiracy theorists: If we were to create our own school for gifted children, said government would kill us, and the children, and claim we were terrorists holding children hostage.
Interesting.
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October 2, 2013 at 1:40 pm
I’m happy not to be a conspiracy theorist. 😉 That’s a nightmare and a half.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:50 pm
My son was ADD and the school never accepted his behavior issues until I brought in the Federal Title 7 law. No more discrimination. He graduated from high school.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:54 pm
Good for you! We need something like that in this country.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Bring back caning! I’m talking about caning the teachers, not the students.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:17 pm
YES! I’ll be the first in line 😀
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October 1, 2013 at 7:09 pm
So mainstream students are sent home and special needs students are put in a special room? That makes about as much sense as other things I remember from my days as a substitute teacher.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:12 pm
I think I may have had a say in getting the room sorted out. I had a difficult time with having to mete out punishment at home for things he did at school. It’s not only not fair, it makes no sense.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:24 pm
I only understand at home suspension for violent or drug-related issues. Even then, something else was done about it.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:35 pm
That’s the thing. He has threatened to hit, and he has bruised his EA’s in the past by squeezing their arms. But all they did was send him home.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:47 pm
Makes perfectly no sense.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:53 pm
I know, right?
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October 1, 2013 at 7:07 pm
ha ha. Good one! Mind you if I had been suspended I might have chosen in school suspension over being at home with my extremely angry mum!
Hope your week gets a whole lot better.
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October 1, 2013 at 7:10 pm
Thanks Tric. On top of that the little one is sick with a cold. Never a dull day… 😛
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October 2, 2013 at 12:55 pm
When it rains it pours!
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October 2, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Buckets!
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