Kindergarten Placement Update...

Wow, I need to update way more often than I have been. It definitely doesn't seem like 3 whole months since the last time I gave an update. An awful lot has happened so I'll try to get you up to speed without writing an entire novel, which I swear I could probably do.

So we went through the whole evaluation process and had the meeting with the team of our local school district regarding Sean's placement for kindergarten in the fall. His test scores were very scattered; in some areas he excelled, but in many other areas, he did awful ("below average"). Now I knew, of course, that he probably wouldn't test well. He has a ZERO attention span if you try to make him do things he doesn't want to do or think about. But I have to say, that going over those results was truly heartwrenching for me. Imagine looking at all the "below average" scores, knowing that it's YOUR kid's results. Not good. Not good at all. So we had the meeting and came out of it having no better of an idea about what his placement would be than we did going into it. As anybody who reads this blog knows, I've had it with the IU - I just want to be done with them, not just for my benefit, but for Sean's as well. And if I had an idea about anything after our meeting with the team, it was that we would definitely have to work with the IU again in the fall, and I just was not interested in that - at all.

So, thanks to a complete God send of an opportunity (which is for a different blog entirely!) we put our house up on the market and sold it quickly, and are moving over to Newtown. We're all signed up with the Council Rock school district, who houses all its special ed students and has no affiliation with the IU at all. That works for me. CR is a great district and I'm hoping that all kids, Sean especially, excels under their guidance. Time will tell...