Yesterday, I was told by my son's teacher that he got upset when another child answered the classroom door as he was the door monitor. My son said that he hated the fucking school and disrupted the class.
He not only got in trouble for this at home, but he had to sit in the office and miss two recesses today.
The story didn't end here, however. I went to school to pick him up today, and I saw several kids walking around with tiny pots with marigolds. I immediately realized these were Mother's Day gifts. We don't celebrate Mother's Day. Too hard on my son. He was adopted from foster care, and he is working through a lot with his biological mother.
The teacher handed me the citation from the day before. No big deal.
Then I saw one of my son's classmates with a potted marigold. And I realized what happened. I asked the classmate when they made the gift, and he said yesterday.
So, I went to talk to his teacher and aide. Yep, the outburst happened after they made Mother's Day gifts, and...
The district's failure to provide trauma-informed training has been one of the issues derailing our IEP meetings.
And here we are again. With another IEP meeting set for May 21, and another incident in which the staff has not been adequately trained.
And the most frustrating part? The school has a consultant coming to the site to provide behavioral support. The district hired a consultant to give a two-hour training on trauma, but no one will approve of her coming into my son's classroom and working with his teachers directly.
She is at the site several hours a week working with teachers on school-wide issues concerning behavior, but no one will contract with her to work with our son's individual teachers.
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