Well, Ethan's principal FINALLY decided to set up a meeting to discuss Ethan. The meeting is tomorrow. Hopefully we can come up with some things to help him do better in school. I know there is some discussion about giving him access to the 'success' room, which is not really the special ed room (there is another name for that room) but it is geared toward kids like Ethan. The room has a negative connotation though, and I am worried that his self esteem will suffer if he has to go in there- even though they would really help him there. He has such a low self esteem now anyway- he even told his teacher on friday that he was really stupid :( I understand why he feels that way though- he gets all that extra help and tutoring, not great grades, he knows he is 'different' from the other kids. His teacher was great though- she gave him a huge pep talk about how smart he was because he was doing the extra work to do better in class. She then gave him a special award for going 'above and beyond' because he was doing some tutoring even though he didn't HAVE to. Yesterday he got to be on the morning announcements at school. The really cool thing is that our school is now doing video announcements and it is posted online. It was really the first time Ethan was proud of something this year. So thanks to Ethan's wonderful teacher, I am starting to be happy with his school again. For now anyway..... The TAKS test for writing is in one week. Then all the pressure for writing will go away and they will start shoving math down their little throats for the next test in 8 weeks. fun, fun!
I will post a link to the video announcement for Ethan's school once it is online :)
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