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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please stop making excuses for your children (SN or not) and take OPs concerns to heart. So many of these basic skills should be taught at home, and the earlier the better!

-MS teacher who has parents constantly making excuses for their children instead of helping them learn accountability and other necessary skills they should be practicing throughout HS so these issues are not bigger problems by the time they reach college. [/quote]

Maybe one day you will understand that kids like my son try harder than anyone else, work harder than anyone else, only to achieve less than the top students. I have taught my son do to ALL the things the OP listed, and he still can't quite communicate as precisely as you'd wish. He's a work in progress, and he will get better as his ADHD brain matures. But despite working harder than everyone else, he can't mature as fast.

So when you see someone with an IEP, imagine that to get where they are, they've worked until 3am most weekdays. That's what my son did to get through his AP Calc BC class. Because he's got a high IQ, actually. He has an incredible work ethic. But he still needs accommodations and understanding.

A lot of posters are so cruel and dismissive, and what hurts most are the educators who believe that kids with special needs are lazy, and their parents are letting them skate by.

NO. WE'RE NOT. WE'RE WORKING HARDER THAN NORMAL FAMILIES. I know this because I barely have to parent my non-SN kids and they effortlessly achieve more than my SN kid does.

A little respect here!

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