The principal called me this morning about 40 minutes prior to school. She wanted to know if she could flip the boys homeroom/1st half of the day teachers due to a scheduling conflict. I didn't ask, but I am thinking it is probably due to my AS son's speech he has twice a week. I knew he wouldn't meltdown over the last minute change; however, I was more worried about him being even more unorganized and scattered. She said to not worry about being tardy if we needed time to prepare him and that she was going to send someone down to just swap over their desks, so they wouldn't even have to move their supplies. I told the boys and they both ended up jumping up and down thrilled. My AS son will now have one of his very brainy, lego loving friends in his class. This boy has ADHD and IMO is more topic centric than my son. They usually hang out at recess a lot. His Mom and I are friends. When she worked as an art teacher, she also had some special ed training and really understands my son, so we hang out a lot out of school too. They play at one another's houses all the time. Additionally, my son was thrilled because there is a boy who had been in his class every year that he likes. They aren't really friends as this boy has no interest in the same things as my son, but he was nice to my son when we first moved here and my son remembers that fondly. He usually says hi and chats with my son anytime we see him before or after school. My other son, his twin, is thrilled because most of his friends from class last year were in his brother's homeroom, so now he gets to be in that homeroom.
When I told my husband, he thought of an additional blessing from this. At Meet the Teacher night last Friday, my AS son told us on the way home his "mortal enemy" XXXX was assigned the desk right across from him. XXXX actually isn't that bad. He wasn't in my son's class last year, but a couple of his friends were and this group always hangs out at recess. My son would ask them almost everyday if he could join and they always said "not today, tomorrow." My son never picked up that it was a brush off until I heard about him asking for several months and then I explained it to him. He then confronted the boys about not being honest. The boys denied that that was not what they were doing, which confused my son and he then said I had it wrong. Of course, they still never allowed him to join in, so then I was finally proven correct and my son had to learn the hard lesson of people telling lies as a a brush off. We had prepered him over the weekend to have a fresh start this year and remind him of times he had wanted people to give him a second chance. He had seemed to be okay about it, but thank goodness, we now don't have to deal with them in the same class.
He still has the same 2 teachers. He just has the other for homeroom now and he stays with a different class all day.
Yippie!! !
22 Aug 2011, 8:49 am
