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[quote=Anonymous]DS started PK this year.  It's been going only "ok".

Part of this is our fault - a bunch of kids form DS's preschool are at the same school and at the beginning of the year he ended up in a different classroom than them.  We were unhappy about this but decided to just deal with it.

Late September there was a classroom adjustment that took place b/c of an imbalance in class sizes b/c of dropouts - we were approached about whether we would be willing to move DS and we agreed (it was still resonating with DS that his 'friends' were in another classroom).  In hindsight i wish we hadn't - it just upended DS to a new class with a new teacher, etc.

But since the move there has been something weird that has happened - DS has come home and shared things that happened at school that didn't actually happen.

The first happened a couple of weeks ago when he came home and seemed stressed...after a while he told me that his good friend "Katie" had fallen off the slide at school and hurt herself.  I was pretty panicked b/c I know "Katie's" mom so contacted her about this - she said it never happened.  I asked DS again about this and he was more vague but repeated the story about falling off the slide at school.  I spoke to the teacher and she said that while the PK group was waiting to go to the play structure area another child had in fact fallen off the slide (and apparently sprained/fractured her foot).

Last week DS came home from school extremely stressed was quiet all night and after some prompting said that he had been sent to the office at school.  We were initially freaked out because we did not get any feedback from school that DS was sent to the office.  The next day I spoke to DSs teacher asking what went on - she said he was never sent to the office nor was anyone else (and pointed out that in PK they don't just send kids 'to the office').  I canvassed other parents I know in the class and they mostly couldn't offer suggestions - although the parent of one girl offered up that it seems like when they were in the library the group had been overly energetic and some of the kids didn't want to 'sit and listen' (I suspect my DS might have been one).

I'm trying to figure out what is going on - DS has been genuinely stressed when sharing these incidents and is not really one for tall tales - when he doesn't want to tell the truth he will say 'i don't remember' rather than lying.  It also doesn't strike me as attention-seeking behaviour.

I'm just trying to figure out what might be going on and how to handle it.

Any ideas? [/quote]

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