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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regardless of what your child says, you tell him that he needs to find a way to occupy his time that is not seen as disruptive. He can review his past notes or the past chapters, which will help him prepare for tests. He can bring a book to read and rea quietly after he has completed his work. He can ask his teacher for additional material to work on when he is done.

He cannot talk to his friends, even if he thinks he is "helping" them. He cannot leave his desk and wander around the classroom. He cannot do things that are distracting to other kids.

Have a meeting with the teacher, your son, and yourself and develop a clear list of what he can do when he finishes work and what he cannot do when he finishes work.

Your child might think he is helping his friends when his teacher sees that it is distracting for his friends or other kids in the class. He is seeing thigns through his lens and does not see the larger picture. [/quote]

"He cannot leave his desk and wander around the classroom."  - That's actually a basic ADHD accommodation. My son had that in his 504 - he was allowed to get up from his desk and walk around the classroom.[/quote]

DP and you are absolutely correct. That is an accommodation. My own child has that written into her plan.

But I’m also a teacher and I see the disruption. I’ve had as many as 4 kids with that accommodation in a class of 30. I’ve had classes in which over half the students require various accommodations. As a parent of a child with special needs, I get it. I really do. But as a teacher who has to teach 30 students simultaneously, I’ve realized that the various accommodations literally work against each other. What helps one kid distracts another; what keeps one kid engaged makes another act disruptively. Education is about juggling more than it is teaching now.[/quote]

I’ve never seen it in HS as wander around the room.  The accommodation is written as movement breaks or something similar.  Many kids have this.  They don’t wander around the class at the secondary level.  They go to the bathroom, which they might not actually be doing  but it’s a chance to leave the room and walk down the hall.  Plenty just openly say they are taking their break and go walk in the hall. They can do this unsupervised at that age.  Sometimes it becomes an issue with them coming back and then other behavior plans are put in place.

This accommodation doesn’t not give a student in HS permission to openly walk around a class and disrupt others.  [/quote]

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