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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Heaven forbid anyone apologize for unacceptable behavior!

What kind of lesson are you teaching your child getting angry that the teacher did the exact right thing?

You don't even have her outbursts diagnosed or treated but you want the teacher to compensate when the teacher is in a room full of kids and this has already happened a few times? Wow, you're a special breed.

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Wow. OP here. Most of the feedback and comments have been very, very helpful (on all sides). This PP is out of line. For the record, I did NOT KNOW that there had been several outbursts or meltdowns this year or related to that activity. I only learned of this when the teacher called to tell me about this and get my insight. And for the record I have been working to understand and have my daughter treated for delays, health issues, evaluations  and more since the age of 9 months. How dare you say that I have  not diagnosed or treated my child?  I have been asking about medication, therapies and other treatments for years, and as I posted in my PP had been advised by both the developmental pediatrician and our regular pediatrician to hold off until we saw what the beginning of this school year looked like. I am personally medicated for ADHD and my spouse is medicated for depression and anxiety. We also have a second child with special needs who receives therapies. I have been worried about my child’s low frustration tolerance and occasional outbursts for years and have had her seen my multiple specialists and a psychologist. I have brought this up as a concern in IEP meetings, and in fact had requested a functional behavioral analysis in 2020 that was denied. I requested one again in last year’s IEP meeting and was encouraged to wait for a return to 5 day a week school and see how things went then. As far as I knew things were fine because until yesterday I hadn’t heard anything  about any problems from my daughter, her teacher or any member of her IEP team. In fact, I specifically wrote to the whole team at the beginning of the year to inform them of challenges my daughter had over the summer and asking them to keep me in the loop if there were issues as I wanted to try to help her and figure out the triggers, how to suppport  the teachers,  and what treatments to consider.

I have much patience and understanding for many viewpoints but how dare you call me a special breed or insinuate I don’t try to treat or help or support my child.[/quote]

I’m sorry OP and please ignore the trolls (I am flagging). There’s something about kids struggling with behavioral issues that just brings the knives out, especially for the moms. All I can say is I stopped caring a long time ago what people who are not my/my kid’s allies think or say.

Anyway … a lot of kids are really struggling with emotional regulation in the pandemic return to school. Can you reopen the IEP to add additional social-emotional goals? And an ASD dx really does open doors. [/quote]

forgot to add - my child is also 9. I think it’s a tough tough age - they are really starting to be big kids with big problems. they are growing but get so frustrated. and 9 is not too early for some puberty emotional stuff. [/quote]

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