Back to School!Back to School! So we went to the “meet the teacher” night on Thursday at Sam’s, once again, new school. This will be his fourth new school since he has started in this school district. I am NOT happy. Last year he started kindergarten in a regular K class. After the ARD in December we decided that he would be better off in a Special Ed. Class with inclusion time in a regular class. This, unfortunately, required a transfer to a different school. He started in the new class, new school after the winter break. It was a very nice school (almost brand new), he had great teachers (lots and lots of experience), and the staff was wonderful. We were pretty happy with everything.
Sometime in July I got a phone call from someone at the school administration building informing me that Sam’s Special Ed class would no longer be at the same school. Once again he was to be transferred to a different school, only this time it was a huge step down. This was the school that many parents petitioned to keep their kids out of when the district was rezoning the school attendance areas. I was one of those parents. I was to have 2 kids at the nice, new, close to home, elementary school A and the board wanted to take all the children from our street and another street and put them in the old, small, twice as far from us, and substandard school B. After much petitioning the kids were to remain at school A. YAY, we did it! Little did I know that one of my kids would end up there anyway. New surroundings, new teachers (and I mean new in every sense of the word, no where near as experienced as his teacher from the second half of las t year) , new peers…he has to start all over again. Mama is not happy!!! To be honest, he is going to be entering a school with a whole different culture than what he is used to. Now I know, new experiences are good, but if he keeps having to take the time to learn to adapt to new surroundings, friends, teacher, cultures, and so forth, he will never have the time to learn the things he is at school to learn. You know, reading, writing, ‘rithmetic... I find it quite upsetting that he will now have a teacher who is in her first year as an actual special ed teacher (though she did work as a teacher’s aide in special ed classes before), he is now attending a school where a lot of the brand new teachers coming into the district have to start out before moving on to the more desirable schools.
When I asked why the move, the response I got was that all the schools are over capacity and they needed the classroom at the other school. This was the only school with available space. Well of course it was. Nobody wants their kids to go there. What do you think? Use the "CONTACT" box below to share your input with us.
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