Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Common Sense

Hope everyone is having a great day!! Jayden and I had a good morning until we got to school. His teacher keeps sending home notes to tell me he is not doing his work in the morning and will not speak at all but he does good after Lunch. I found out she is taking his morning snack since he is not doing all of his work. They do not eat lunch until 12:15 so he is going all day with nothing to eat. Im not sure why it was so hard to figure out that he is hungry and that is why you are getting nothing out of him. This is one of the few problems I deal with on a daily basis. He doesn't talk much (selective mutism) so if something is wrong you have to figure it out . They always assume it has something to do with Autism when he is still a little boy just like the rest of the class and he gets hungry. You don't have to be Autistic to get hungry. Sorry guess I needed to vent today. I just think sometimes people don't  use common sense. He is not a disability or statistic he is a 6 year old little boy. To think any child has to stay at school hungry just because they can't get the work done as fast as the other kids just gets me upset. Im done for now so have a great day and God Bless! Please keep us in your prayers.

1 comment:

  1. teacher needs to understand or be made to understand that taking his snack away is actually making it harder for him to concentrate. It's a self fulfilling prophecy...especially if he's unable to "appropriately" communicate his hunger. Maybe he lashes out, maybe he even melts down...so to punish him for communicating his hunger...she takes away the one thing that would fix it.

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