I am the real Day 6

No, I am the real Day 6

Going to give you a peek into a day in my life with Bailey

I know that teachers have a hard job......but

Don't we all?  A job is a job.

You have to deal with snot nosed kids that are yelling and I have to deal with a rich egotistical jackanape of a CEO that curses me out before he knows anything about me.

I know, I'm whipping the sacred cow.  I'm sorry about that.

So.....Bailey got a detention today.  The circumstances of the situation dictated that the teacher dealing with Bailey at the time do something.  I have no issue with Bailey getting punishment, but there are times that I wish a true adult was present to diffuse these situations with Bailey before it escalated to a negative situation.

Here's the background that I know at this point.

Apparently Bailey was recently placed in some sort of advanced placement portion of a literature class. The assignments that they're working on right now involve reading these stories and mapping out the plot lines of the story.

This type of assignment deals with the Abstract.  Taking abstract ideas about a story and putting them into some kind of order.

Can anyone that knows anything about ASD or has been following this blog tell me what is wrong with this picture?

Also, his mother and I were not notified of this change in assignment for Bailey.  Another big red flag.  Bailey does not deal well with change.

I'm not asking for the world, but a simple email or phone call would have been nice.  If they would have given me anything close to what they were intending I could have told them that without additional support that they were setting Bailey up for failure.

So now we have to deal with the fact that Bailey got a detention and also try and work something out with the school to get Bailey extra support so that he can try to stay in this advanced placement class.

The school administration poo-poohed when I requested that they maybe read up a little bit about Autism and Aspergers.  When they do something like this its almost like they know absolutely nothing.

I hear all the time that teachers want parents involved - but it doesn't seem like it based on my personal experience.  It gets really discouraging at times.

Sorry to be a Debbie Downer tonight.  Just venting out some frustrations.

Beam me up Scotty!