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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  I wouldn't let the school psych anywhere near my kid. They are so unqualified to actually diagnose anything. So often their go-to diagnosis is what they already have programming for. So they tried to shove my learning disabled child into an autism program.

They also like secrecy because they view it as keeping all the power.

I would get my child privately evaluated. You'll learn a lot more. [/quote]

This is about the impression I got when I met with them last school year.

I felt like they were eager to diagnose him with something and I don't want that "label" to be carried with him if it's not appropriate or helpful. I also worry about the IEP process because I fear what will happen once there is a "legal contract" attached to my childs education (if that's what they decide is the right course). And I realize that there are other routes, like a 504 or I can decline to sign an IEP if I don't agree with it, but then what? How will the school treat my child if they think I'm being difficult?

In my gut I feel like my child was behind the other students when he started at FCPS because the school he came from was behind FCPS, he also isn't very motivated to learn stuff that he finds "boring", and he takes after me a lot academically. He has my handwriting, he struggles with the same things I struggled with when I was his age, he is a daydreamer (like I was), he is easily distracted (like I was), he is well behaved and DOES try when he wants to (just like me when I was his age). I struggled through elementary, middle and high school, and I never had special education, and I wasnt a great student until college when it became my choice to continue my education (and my own financial responsibility!).

I feel like he has the potential to do better if he applied himself a little more, but the school day is very long in FCPS and he often comes home from school very tired. He doesn't like school and very much looks forward to the weekend and breaks from school. When we do "homeschool" during the summer, he does fine. We keep it short and I give him assignments that I prepare to help him review what he learned in school and he does them with no problem, but when I get his homework out during the school year, he acts like he can't do it (or just flat out tells me he doesn't want to).

I don't know what to do. I'm hoping things get better soon or that the answer becomes more clear to me soon.[/quote]

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