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[quote=Anonymous]We are in our third week of school and today I got the call to pick up my 3rd grader because he had a meltdown and they couldn’t calm him down.

Of course before today I had confirmed appropriate teacher placement, provided brief summary of IEP along with key triggers/ deescalation strategies and full IEP attached, set up a meeting with new AP and classroom teacher for tomorrow ironically. And I had reminded he entire team of our plan to have a “crisis team” prepared with this info in case his regular people weren’t available.

And so today when I was debriefing the situation we realized:
-nobody had read the IEP or remembered my email
-both the principal and sped teacher were offsite so his safe people were unavailable
-he got stuck on a writing task (his known kryptonite) that was so difficult the teacher couldn’t do it (tiny map labeling)
-when he refused to go to recess they left him with new AP who he had never met
- when he date on the rug and was kicking the floor (one of his approved venting activities) they called a guy in facilities whose son is on the spectrum
- that man was asked to pin my child’s legs down so he couldn’t hurt himself (confinement is another trigger)
- the mans pants were wet and since my child had last seen him repairing the boys bathroom my germaphobe child became focused on the toilet water being smeared on him
- by the time I walked in there were 8 adults surrounding him trying to talk to him while he had a meltdown

So tomorrow I have to put on my happy partnering face and meet the team to review how this should have gone down.  I know we all have bad days, and my child can go from amazing to nightmare in 5 minutes.  So I know their jobs are hard.  But can’t they even review the IEPs of th kids who meltdown.But tonight I needed to vent here.

When this kiddo started kindergarten he bit the principal when she lifted him out of his car in car line and someone here wrote the most hysterical limerick which I can’t seem to find. If anyone recalls that limerick I would love to read it again.

Thanks for listening.[/quote]

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