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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m sorry to hear that your child is suffering. However, this whole plan sounds like it was half baked. Summer school this year is really only for kids who were below grade level academically so that teachers could remediate and go over what was taught last year for students to try to catch up before the fall. You said your child was mainstreamed in his normal school, so he would presumably be with a mainstream teacher for summer school. Schools do not typically call parents to come help students until they have tried everything themselves, and they have a huge arsenal of tactics and strategies. The fact that they called you even once, let alone multiple times, means that the mainstream environment for summer school was not a match for your child’s needs, which sound substantial. I think changing his meds while simultaneously placing him in an unfamiliar school with unfamiliar staff was not an ideal choice. Now you can’t tell if it was the meds or the environment. Regardless, this is not a safe or productive place for him to be while you are adjusting his meds. I can imagine how stressful this must be for your family, but you are hyper focusing on a random private conversation amongst teachers that your child inserted himself into. Reporting that they were chatting or laughing amongst themselves seems petty. I can tell from your W school reference that you expect everyone to deign to you and your child at all times but teachers and paras are there to educate the group. If your child struggles such that he needs one on one support to engage in group learning, then he needs a different, possibly not mainstream placement. [/quote]

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