• “He Never forgot me from that Year.” He was in kindergarten when my niece was in 4^th grade and this was her teacher.
• “I’m figuring out where do I have to meet him to bring him to bring him along, and that I have to tell you is my biggest struggle with not having the extra supports in place with an IEP. Where he can be a part of the mini lesson and then his activity can kind of be tailored and he can be given stepping stones to get through it. That’s the thing that has really been a struggle for him and I feel like there’s been times where he’s missed out on learning opportunities.
• So much as a gen ed teacher that we are allowed to do and can do
• He’s such a model student
• “All of the data that I have in terms of math, he’s at beginning level of understanding” – they really focused on this, but we have only been in school a little over a month. If all kids learned the same, they would all be the same.
• “Has he ever had problems with his memory”? This was just asked by the same teacher that stated in the beginning of the meeting that he never forgot her from 4 years ago.
• I’m always amazed that instead of helping they just let it go to let me know he couldn’t do that. Shouldn’t they just TEACH him.
• Me- “It bothered us that he was being taken out to work on a few things like being able to identify CVC words, I had to google what a CVC word is”.

Teacher- “ I don’t know what a CVC word is” – another teacher proceeds to tell her.

Me- “He missed science to work on that”

That’s bothersome to me. The teacher isn’t even sure what a CVC word is, but Kyle is missing an important subject that carries onto the next grade and falling behind to learn these. WHY?

• “We have the options to ask the experts” Experts as in the special education teacher, school psychologist, speech pathologist and school social worker. Those are the experts. Read on to see how good these “experts” were.
• “I just don’t want to pop his bubble of happiness and positivity and he thinks he’s with us, but we keep handing him things he can’t do and it just doesn’t feel right. And our hands are kind of tied at the Gen Ed level.
• Just because he has an IEP doesn’t mean he has to miss a subject area. Please know were advocates I just met the other day with Mrs. Hart to work out a schedule. They do need work to bridge the gap. Bridge the gap is a term that is used often.
• We need to figure out where the disconnect is because guess what? This time next year, middle school. 35 to 40 kids in a class the pace is (Her snapping fingers quickly) He’s going to have no Idea.