Can anyone tell me about Herbert Hoover Bridge Program?
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Anonymous
| Can anyone tell me about Herbert Hoover Bridge? I heard there is a new Principal as of last year and a new Bridge Director as of this school year. |
Anonymous
| SUCKS!!! The principal has no understanding of special needs kids. I hate having meetings at that school and my child is miserable. |
Anonymous
| Is your child autistic or ED etc? |
Anonymous
| I've seen numerous comments about Hoover Bridge (key word search) and not recommended for children with Autism and poor reviews in general. |
Anonymous
I understand that the current Bridge Program Director is being replaced next year 2015/2016. |
Anonymous
| The School Administration and the people in Special Education are either poorly trained, or incompetent, or just flat out don't care about Special Needs kids. If you have a choice, go somewhere else. Just changing the Bridge Director will not be enough and kids are subjected to mistreatment by staff and kids at school. Some of the worst years in public education for my child. |
Anonymous
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The Bridge program is overly harsh and punitive.
They use a one size fits all behavioral level system that is not effective with most kids. You have to earn the right to mainstream (probably illegal). Many parents pull their kids out and homeschool in desperation after their kids deteriorate. There is no real social skills training. The Gaithersburg Bridge program is worse. |
Anonymous
Agree 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! especially if your child is on the autism spectrum |
Anonymous
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Imagine people working with your child who don't ever read the IEP and data on your child. For an autistic child, there are probably triggers that can lead to a melt down. If the IEP is read, these triggers can be minimized and your child is supported. However, if you have staff that doesn't take the time to read the IEP or understand your child - both the child and the teacher keep hitting a brick wall that leads to meltdowns, punishments, and your child cannot learn. It defeats the purpose and the time of developing an IEP. The teacher is frustrated, the other kids in the program may be effected, and above all the child with a disability is not served and faces stigmatizing punishment from a school that doesn't understand his/her needs.
The treatment from the staff is just the tip of the iceberg. Other students pick up on the classroom comments and teacher frustrations and the Special Needs children are alienated from the general education population. This is Hoover Middle School. |
Anonymous
I could have written this exact same statement. The absolute worst year of my child's academic life - on the Autism spectrum. |
Anonymous
| I thought things were BAD and Hoover then my child went to Churchill. NO ONE READS THE IEP. NO ONE PROVIDES THE SERVICES PROMISED. Meanwhile they keep saying my child is making progress but the Goals and Objectives NEVER CHANGE. Piss poor education by people who don't give a damn. |
Anonymous
| Does anyone have a child at the Churchill Bridge Program |
Anonymous
| I would ask this on the MC Needs yahoo group. GL. |
Anonymous
| This is very sad. |
Anonymous
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I was in this program in 1987-88. Then the teachers were not trained with special needs kids especially those like me that required honors classes. The teachers played games with kids who needed clear consistency. It was however better that the middle school I left as that school encouraged bullying.
Reading the other posts is sad to see that they have barely improved. Junior high was a tumultuous time for me and all my friends and I think it really needs to be reimagined. Because we’ve learned the basic grammar skills of grammar school and do not have the brains yet for more complex skills of high school and this is in between state, which really needs to focus on Moving towards adulthood on that fundamental level and I haven’t heard of any programs that really do that well |