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I kinda wish I'd been there for most of this.
Ok, so in another thread, I talked about how my parents are pretty happy to ignore problems. But when they do feel there's a problem, they fight to the end. My sister, when she was very little, was diagnosed as a low-functioning autistic. It was said she would never talk, walk, or be potty-trained. My parents were told they should just put her in an institution for the rest of her life.
Well, my parents decided 'screw that' and got every book, and every article they could find on Autism. They refused to roll over and give up on her.
And trust me, she had a lot of problems.
My parents picked my sister's and my school due to them having the best special-ed in the area, but that wasn't saying much.
Mom went off on the school for not having the seatbelt-enabled seats on school buses, because if Sis was in a seatbelt, she'd calm down and accept her situation, but if she wasn't, she reportedly sat in the middle of the aisle and screamed.
Thanks to her, now all my district's buses have two of those seats (with two seatbelt places per seat.) She was also willing to stand up for other special-needs kids, volunteering to help on that bus. The bus driver also drove my bus, and in retaliation for my mother making her get up and buckle the kids in like she was supposed to do per regulations, the bus driver began to 'forget' my stop.
And when the school tried to have all the parents looking for an IEP in the same room, where the teachers would switch from table-to-table, Mom stood up, announced their rights to an "individual" education plan, and they all walked out.
Reportedly, the office people would flinch when they saw her coming.
When my sister, after getting streamlined successfully (having moved up the spectrum) was kept in the principal's office for three hours without them notifying Mom that my sister was having a meltdown, Mom made it very clear how big of a mistake that was.
Now apparently, she's at it again. Sis has been having some troubles with her secondary school. She goes to two high schools, one a specialized school for the more advanced kids, like she now is. The math teacher has decided Sis isn't worth her time, that Sis isn't smart enough to be there, and won't update progress reports so my parents can see what's going on.
Mom yelled at her for reportedly a half-hour for this, and finished by saying: "You have the personality of a wet sponge. No wonder [sis] keeps falling asleep in your class!"
I don't think Mom has gotten anybody fired yet, but after two years of my mother, one teacher did retire. (She was horrible to my sister and I. I felt so bad for Sis when I found out Sis had her.)
This is all from my mother. I haven't really gotten what happened from my sister or father, who both unsurprisingly (father because he's a closed-down person in matters like this, sister because she reportedly had a meltdown after the math teacher implied she was too stupid to be in the school) will not discuss it.
I wish I'd been there.
Ok, so in another thread, I talked about how my parents are pretty happy to ignore problems. But when they do feel there's a problem, they fight to the end. My sister, when she was very little, was diagnosed as a low-functioning autistic. It was said she would never talk, walk, or be potty-trained. My parents were told they should just put her in an institution for the rest of her life.
Well, my parents decided 'screw that' and got every book, and every article they could find on Autism. They refused to roll over and give up on her.
And trust me, she had a lot of problems.
My parents picked my sister's and my school due to them having the best special-ed in the area, but that wasn't saying much.
Mom went off on the school for not having the seatbelt-enabled seats on school buses, because if Sis was in a seatbelt, she'd calm down and accept her situation, but if she wasn't, she reportedly sat in the middle of the aisle and screamed.
Thanks to her, now all my district's buses have two of those seats (with two seatbelt places per seat.) She was also willing to stand up for other special-needs kids, volunteering to help on that bus. The bus driver also drove my bus, and in retaliation for my mother making her get up and buckle the kids in like she was supposed to do per regulations, the bus driver began to 'forget' my stop.
And when the school tried to have all the parents looking for an IEP in the same room, where the teachers would switch from table-to-table, Mom stood up, announced their rights to an "individual" education plan, and they all walked out.
Reportedly, the office people would flinch when they saw her coming.
When my sister, after getting streamlined successfully (having moved up the spectrum) was kept in the principal's office for three hours without them notifying Mom that my sister was having a meltdown, Mom made it very clear how big of a mistake that was.
Now apparently, she's at it again. Sis has been having some troubles with her secondary school. She goes to two high schools, one a specialized school for the more advanced kids, like she now is. The math teacher has decided Sis isn't worth her time, that Sis isn't smart enough to be there, and won't update progress reports so my parents can see what's going on.
Mom yelled at her for reportedly a half-hour for this, and finished by saying: "You have the personality of a wet sponge. No wonder [sis] keeps falling asleep in your class!"
I don't think Mom has gotten anybody fired yet, but after two years of my mother, one teacher did retire. (She was horrible to my sister and I. I felt so bad for Sis when I found out Sis had her.)
This is all from my mother. I haven't really gotten what happened from my sister or father, who both unsurprisingly (father because he's a closed-down person in matters like this, sister because she reportedly had a meltdown after the math teacher implied she was too stupid to be in the school) will not discuss it.
I wish I'd been there.
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