Kicked out of summer camp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ladies, I'd like to suggest you drop this please. The PP with the Ivymount issue has been a very active and helpful member of this board and I'm guessing the person who has issues with this PP has also been an active and helpful member of this board. Let's just leave it at you agreeing to disagree on this issue.

Personally I see both your points. I think PP with the Ivymount issue has a right to post about it when she wants and I think she has a valid gripe. I also think her son's case is really an important success story for others to know about and I can see her pride in every post. But I also see how the frequency with which she posts about this can be annoying to some and how her talking about her great her DS is doing can really sting for those of us who are struggling. I don't mean to offend either of you and think you're probably both really nice people but this arguing is starting to sound like two of my kids going at it.

She's obsessed:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/453471.page#6562756
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/457835.page#6656438
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/105/432075.page#6132224
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/432075.page#6124263

She went so far as to upload the "rejection" letter to this site. Jeff removed it and she complained. She obviously wants sympathy and aw, that's awful responses, but having read all of her posts over the last two years, it's obvious she's blowing everything out of proportion. Her kid will be graduating college and she'll still be complaining about this mosquito bite.

New poster here. I read this forum every day and I was oblivious to these posts and "The Obsession" until you pointed it out. I think you should stand down because if you want to defend Ivymount, you have effectively done nothing but bring attention to OP's cause. Ivymount has a great reputation and one snafu (mosquito bite as you call it) is not going to bring them down. On the other hand, even great schools can handle a single situation with less than thoughtful care which it sounds like what happened here -- why not just admit that? Is that such a big deal? Ivymount can't serve everyone. Stop following anti-Ivymount posts if they annoy you but you are coming across as a zealot. Every school has its supporters and detractors.

[Anonymous]

fWiW, we had a bad experience with Ivymount as well, but I think both Prodigy Mom and Ivymount-Lovin' mom have made their points. Let's get back to the fun annual topic of camps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:fWiW, we had a bad experience with Ivymount as well, but I think both Prodigy Mom and Ivymount-Lovin' mom have made their points. Let's get back to the fun annual topic of camps.

Agree... although I don't like being called "Prodigy" Mom. We don't let DS call himself that. Anyway, we are packing so DS can attend a specialized camp for his hobby out-of-state. We don't tell the camps about his ASD/ADHD diagnosis at the advice of his psychiatrist which I feel funny about bc we are generally pretty open about it. DS's main coach knows his diagnosis but even he felt DS presents like a NT kid his age (DS is medicated for the ADHD) and DS has done really well at camps given that they specialize in his hobby. DS's made lots of friends and the instructors think he's great and gets fussed over.

DS did not attend ANY camps until this year starting in Spring Break. He probably would have been thrown out of camp last summer... so just bc a kid gets thrown out of camp, it does not mean that camp will never work out.

Good luck, everyone!

[Anonymous]

Prodigy mom was tongue in cheek

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ladies, I'd like to suggest you drop this please. The PP with the Ivymount issue has been a very active and helpful member of this board and I'm guessing the person who has issues with this PP has also been an active and helpful member of this board. Let's just leave it at you agreeing to disagree on this issue.

Personally I see both your points. I think PP with the Ivymount issue has a right to post about it when she wants and I think she has a valid gripe. I also think her son's case is really an important success story for others to know about and I can see her pride in every post. But I also see how the frequency with which she posts about this can be annoying to some and how her talking about her great her DS is doing can really sting for those of us who are struggling. I don't mean to offend either of you and think you're probably both really nice people but this arguing is starting to sound like two of my kids going at it.

She's obsessed:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/453471.page#6562756
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/457835.page#6656438
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/105/432075.page#6132224
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/432075.page#6124263

She went so far as to upload the "rejection" letter to this site. Jeff removed it and she complained. She obviously wants sympathy and aw, that's awful responses, but having read all of her posts over the last two years, it's obvious she's blowing everything out of proportion. Her kid will be graduating college and she'll still be complaining about this mosquito bite.

New poster here. I read this forum every day and I was oblivious to these posts and "The Obsession" until you pointed it out. I think you should stand down because if you want to defend Ivymount, you have effectively done nothing but bring attention to OP's cause. Ivymount has a great reputation and one snafu (mosquito bite as you call it) is not going to bring them down. On the other hand, even great schools can handle a single situation with less than thoughtful care which it sounds like what happened here -- why not just admit that? Is that such a big deal? Ivymount can't serve everyone. Stop following anti-Ivymount posts if they annoy you but you are coming across as a zealot. Every school has its supporters and detractors.

I'm not following them--the above is the result of two minute search. I'll stop reading them if she stops posting them.

[Anonymous]

To kind of circle around and maybe focus on positive experiences that parents may appreciate, I have to say that my autistic kid is having a really good experience at Camp JCC. They really bend over backward for the kiddos there. I half-expected 'the call', but he's been doing great.