Conferences

It is that time of the year.  I had both of my conferences this afternoon.  Started with the little man and I was apprehensive.  Anymore anytime the phone rings I expect it to be the school telling me what he did wrong that day.  And he does wrong.  He still has a problem maintaining control of his hands and keeping them to himself.
We have dealt with CPS coming, cops coming and all those things entail.  I have had a neighbor suggest he go to the 49th Street Academy.  I had to look that up and it is really hard to discern what it is, but it can't be a good place.  It may be a necessary place, but not a nice place.  And so my nerves are a bit shredded.
I mentioned the academy to his teacher, who knew nothing about it.  She did tell me we were no where near even looking at any other placement for the little man.  She came across as she didn't even think it was ever an option.  She told me about his check in, check out plan with Mr. Jones and that is working so far.....but it is the first week of it.  There is a whole group of people paying attention though.  She explained to me how she tries to head anything off in the classroom and pointed out some things that help.  I am going to utilize some of her strategies.
Then on to the good.  He is where he should be in some subjects and ahead in others.  She is going to give him some harder math and let him know how good that makes him compared to the average student.  Education wise he is going great, just like last year.  And so we just keep moving forward and I felt greatly relieved.

Then I met with the little woman's teacher.  The little woman is doing so much better this year all around.  She is spot on in reading and math and as of right now will not be doing math academy  or have any reading interventions.  It's like it all started clicking for her this summer.  She is still a little hyper, but sometimes she just has to turn her desk around to settle down.  She is a great addition to her class.  I got to read some of her writings.  Funny how she would save homeless people with the money from her money tree.  Guess we still need to talk more about that and sign flyers who only want the money for their addictions.  But that is all right.  She has more empathy and compassion in her little finger than I do in my whole body.  And it is good for her to teach me.
We talked about the little woman seeing the therapist.  Seems there is some right hand left hand going on.  According to her teacher, no one ever told her the little woman was suppose to meet with the therapist.  So hopefully now that will work the way it is suppose to.  Anxiety is a hard thing to deal with and the little woman needs that help the therapist can give her.

So overall the conferences were positive and I walked away with a happy heart.