Home Schooling, Revisited

I posted about Aspie Boy's problems with school, and said I was going to take him out of school and home school him. His dad was almost in agreement. I had received a lot of responses to a post of mine on a forum devoted to Asperger's Syndrome for parents of kids with AS and for people with AS. The responses were overwhelmingly in support of taking Aspie Boy out of school in order to home school him.

But then, after I arrived at work this morning, I found an email from a mom who successfully was able to get the school to meet her son's needs rather than taking him out of school. She provided her phone number and asked me to call her, and I did. I am still amazed that I found this person, because she caused me to see that this could be worked out with the school without battling the school.

Her son is currently in middle school and is doing very well. He is getting straight A's. He actually LIKES school! Aspie Boy HATES school at this point. He has no friends, and the teachers have not been handling him well.

For starters on the road to helping Aspie Boy get on the right track, I am going to enroll him in Karate tomorrow night. I learned from the woman who emailed me that there is a karate teacher who gave up his job to devote time training kids who have disabilities, primarily kids who have AS.

At the end of this month, I'm going to meet with the teachers and principal and psychologist at Tristan's school to request implementation of certain procedures that will help Tristan.

My heart hurts that I have subjected Aspie Boy to the treatment he has received at school for the last 2 years, but I'm glad that I have found out that there are things I can do to change things.