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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this will depend to some extent on your principal.  When my SM child was entering kindergarten, we met with the principal in the spring to talk about it, and she was extremely supportive.  She actually suggested two specific kindergarten teachers and let us choose between them (!), and encouraged the teacher to actually do a home visit with us, since my kid was most comfortable and likely to speak to new people at our house.  And then we also did get to do a classroom visit before the open house.  The same thing (including home visit) happened the following year.  We got a new principal the following year and didn't at that point need the home visits so we didn't push for those, but I think maybe we still did a pre-open house classroom visit for the next year or two.

We were very grateful for that transition to public school; it helped our kid so much to be comfortable.  It still took several years before she spoke to some of the specials teachers (PE, art, etc.), but she was at least able to participate and not be completely frozen in the classroom from the beginning.  She's now in high school and needs no accommodations at all, but it was a slow process through the first few years of school.[/quote]

I'm the pp.  That is so, so amazing you got the home visit. That is what we requested several times, and we were told absolutly not. [/quote]

We were also incredibly fortunate that one of the suggested kindergarten teachers (who we then asked for) had a kid in the same preschool class as my kid, so we already  knew them a little bit and they were willing to come to our house and also have a playdate in the school playground.  I was more surprised that the first grade teacher was willing to do a home visit the following year, with no connection like that to draw on. [/quote]

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