1st Grade Teacher

To get right down to the topic, Danes doesn't like his teacher.  I wish I would have knew more throughout the school year of what his teacher was doing.  With only 12 days left in the school year he is not liking school very much.  He likes his Special Education teacher and his Speech Therapist.  They are very nice.  His teacher for this year is not very nice to him I am thinking.

One day my wife was coming back to his class to tell him something.  She noticed that the desk police gave Dane a ticket for not having a clean desk.  The teacher kept him in from recess for that.  He has been asking for help.  I think that he is thinking that the top of his desk is clean and he doesn't understand how it can get any cleaner.  Needless to say that he has been missing out on classroom movies and other recesses for "catch up" on his homework. 

At parent teacher conference I told her how he can not concentrate and totally hates his homework.  She crossed off half of the work hoping that would make it easier for him.  It has some days.  Other days I did the homework for him just to make sure he gets to go outside at school.  But now I am finding out hes staying in for catching up?  WTH!  Is she making him do the homework she crossed out or what?  Recess is one of the biggest parts of his sensory needs.

I almost am thinking that his teacher belittles him in front of class and uses him as a scapegoat.  In thinking, what if she is telling her class something like, "Now class.  Dane didn't do his homework so Dane doesn't get to watch the move."  Or, "Dane didn't clean his desk so Dane isn't going outside for recess."  If she is doing that to my boy I'd have a field day with her and the principal.  It is so hard getting answers out of the little man.

Last night I gave him a haircut.  Ugh, I totally loathe cutting his hair.  He screams and doesn't sit still.  He squinches and jumps out of the chair even before the clippers touch him.  I had to hold his head with my hand and tell him how good he's doing.  It gets nerve racking but he's done and looks much better.  I told him how much cooler he will be now that it's getting so hot out.

Dane is still pretty observant.  He notices anything that is out of the ordinary and hears everything.  He still loves pinwheels and things that spin.  He will spend lots of time bending and taping broken off fins to make them all work again.  He's not happy till they all spin.

My wife is working as a CNA and she had to go out of state for a seminar on treating Dementia patients.  She says that some of the stuff they said to do can help with cases of autism.  How a person needs to get to their level and ask what's bothering them.  I'll have to get more input from her on what she all learned.