What now? Do the parents of the poor little kid keep him at school? Or do they home school him? (Part four)

The parents of the poor little kid were worried about whether the teacher could really help their son in the classroom with 20 other students. She was so busy and it took her 6 months to even notice that he was pretending to understand any reading and writing lessons. His stress was already high and he already saw himself as a failure.

The psychologist said that our son will always find learning hard, this was part of the learning disability. She was working closely with the teacher and learning support teacher to help them understand the learning disability. Can the teachers cater for him well enough to learn to read and write?

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The learning support teacher talked about "The Bridge Program" that helped kids like our son to read. They allow kids to successfully read with the help of pictures. She also said an oral language program was being introduced for a small group of children. Intense work with learning and a good feel program had already started to help our son and a few other kids.

Do we wait and see how he goes or do we try to teach him at home? That would mean that I would leave work and be an at home mum. Would I be able to help him? I am not a teacher so I might mess it up big time.

Or do we wait to see how he progresses at school?

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Our little boy really likes going to school to play with his friends. He is good at number and sums and he is good at sports, all sound reasons to leave him at school. Are we just being over protected?

We decided to ask our son whether he wanted to stay at school or be taught at home?

Our boy got very upset with our question. He said school was getting better, he was beginning to read books and the teacher was helping him a lot. He said that he liked his teacher, she was nice and if he stayed at home he would not be able to play with his friends. He promised that he would do his homework every afternoon.

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The solution was staring us in the face as we listened to our little boy. He was staying at school. And we will be always closely watching, talking to the teachers as often as we can and meeting to help with planning for our boy every year. We liked the school too, it had a good reputation teaching kids with special education needs.

We just had to trust.

But we know that principals and teachers come and go. So staying alert was a must. It is up to us to make sure our son is always helped.

We never knew sending our son to school was so hard. We pledged that we would always keep the communication channels open with our son.

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Cheers and Blessings