preschool there<\/a>, starting when we get back in January. The class she’ll be in will have both general ed and some (other) special ed kids. There’s an “Integrated Educational Plan” (IEP) being put together for her, with various goals and strategies to work on her “artic and disfluency” problems. and she’ll both do some in-class work and some pulled work with a speech therapist.<\/p>\n“Ugly” Part 1: We have to refill out all those damnable forms and slips and profiles and records for her new preschool. Annoying. If there’s one thing that will drive us into a world bereft of privacy, where every single one of our records is in some single, massive computer bank, it will be the constant need to keep filling out repetitious forms …<\/p>\n
“Ugly” Part 2: We’re going to try to keep Katherine in her current preschool, since she’s enjoying it so much. Which means, since she’ll be in a Monday\/Wednesday afternoon class, that our weekly schedule is going to look like a checkerboard, with Katherine spending part of Monday-Thursday somewhere else, courtesy of Mom & Dad Taxi Service.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, since she’s in it as a special ed kid, it’s Your Tax Dollars At Work paying for her preschool tuition. And it’s right near my comic book store, so I can at least pick her up on Wednesday afternoons and then swing by and pick up my comics.<\/p>\n
She may need to bid a fond farewell to her Tuesday\/Thursday morning preschool class. Which would be a shame, but might be gthe only way for us to keep our sanity and\/or jobs.<\/p>\n
I’m definitely glad we’re doing this. She’s clearly got a lot to say. She deserves a chance to say it clearly to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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