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I agree with previous posters who think it sounds like this school has already made up their minds about your son. I also agree that the level of judgment given his age is fairly ridiculous, though I can also understand why a concerned teacher would want to put interventions in place for a child they believe is developmentally delayed. In your position, if you trust the previous assessment, I would decline to have him re-evaluated and concentrate on moving him to a different preschool. If it is possible, your daughter, who is thriving, could stay in the current preschool. What is your plan for kindergarten given that you mentioned you live in DC but send them to school in VA?[/quote]

I'm trying as hard as I can not to think of this as an "Us vs. Them" situation with the school. But I think my son behaves somewhat differently at school than he does at home. So his teacher is not seeing the degree of self-expression from him that we see, and that's contributing to their concerns. His teacher harps on the eye contact thing--that he's not making as much of it as they'd like to see. So I've started a game with him called "Look in Daddy's Eyes and Don't Laugh," which he enjoys. We'll see if that helps.

My son also has a somewhat unique way of expressing himself verbally. While he speaks and expresses himself more than he used to, he still does a lot of parroting of things that he hears, and a lot of repeating of words and phrases. He doesn't express himself verbally with the same sophistication that his sister does, and that does concern us. How much it should concern us, I don't know.

Regarding his attitude toward the school itself, while my son doesn't cry when he gets dropped off, I have noticed that he's started going limp when the teacher comes to our car to retrieve him. He has to be half-carried out of the car and placed on the ground. This could be his passive protest.

Regarding Kindergarten plans, our plan was to leave the kids at this school, when we thought that was an option. But of course that's looking less likely. I am somewhat biased toward Virginia schools, since that's where I grew up, and my opinion of the DC public school system is not all that high. Until we're able to move somewhere else (our house and property needs a fair amount of work before we can think about selling), I am prepared to drive the kids to school in Virginia every day. Fortunately my job allows me the flexibility to do that.

--Jeff Morris[/quote]

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