Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Well I have gone to get kids from school and am now back in bed where they have me for awhile til I can get some of this swelling down out of my leg, if I stand for more than 15-20 mins my foot starts changing colors all over again.
Took a short break from typing and finished homework with McKenzie, David still has to finish a project because yet again his teacher didn't give specific information on how it needed to be done so he has to redo it. I am so tired of projects and much less having to redo projects.
So while on the topic of David, I will tell you a little more about him. David is a child with a huge heart, he is the most caring, loving, giving child I have ever met in my life. However with that he also has the worst anger problem too. And half the time he has no idea why he is angry, he just is. And he will take it out on everyone but me. He also wont show it at school. David has been diagnosed with ADHD and a comprehension problem, I don't remember what it is called but it has something to do with the fact that he was born so early. For those who don't know David was born at 32 weeks which is 2 months early. He was only 4 pounds 9 ounces. He was really tiny.
Lately our biggest problem has been school, he is not doing so well. He says everything is confusing and it is hard, so half the time instead of showing us his work he hides it and doesn't tell us he has it to do. Like a project that was due this past week, I didn't know anything about it until the day before it was due and when Adger and I asked him about it he said it was done or at least almost done and he and his group would finish it the next day, oh yeah meant to say it was a group project. So the day after it was due the teacher comes to me and tells me that David didn't do anything for the project. Can't believe she waited until the day after the damn thing was due to say anything to me if she had been watching him do nothing for the 2 weeks the project was assigned why didn't she say anything then? I will finish that story later because there is so much more to that that is driving my brain nuts. The rest of his work we can check and he some how doesn't have all of it done even with us checking it, I just don't understand how that can happen. So then we discuss both of us checking his agenda and so we are both signing and all the work still isn't getting done. And I am not sure how that is possible unless on her side she is not checking what he writing down for homework. Course I am sure she is thinking that I am not checking it on my part. So we are at a cross roads, we have a meeting with the principal and the teacher on Thursday, we aren't sure why, she said it had to do with his progress, so then we got his report card today and it wasn't horrible I mean he had one grade drop from a b to an f, but some of his other grades actually came up even if it was from an F to a D+ that is better than nothing.  But other than that we really never have any problems with David other than like I said his anger. He gets mad at Jacob a lot but then again they all do. He does this growl yell thing at everyone when he is angry. But he is also finally figuring out how to destress some, he plays basketball by himself when he is angry, we were waiting on Adger at the school one day and David ran the playground because he was mad at Jacob. So like I said he is figuring some of it out on his own.

So now back to the story about his teacher telling me that afternoon about him not doing his part of the project. I get home after school and after she tells me about him not doing anything for the project. I start getting texts from another parent telling me how her son and David were put in the same group for this project and how she wanted to know why David didn't do his part of the project. How it was unfair to her son that David didn't do his part of the project. Oh yeah now let me explain about this so called group project, first each child was graded individually no one child's grade effected another child's grade, so if one child didn't do their part of the project it didn't effect another child in anyway. And the groups decided who did what part of the project, not the teacher. So in a 4 person group with 5 parts to a project, David got stuck with 2 parts of this project to do, still not sure how that happened except for the fact that David is usually a pushover when it comes to other kids so they probably talked him into it with him not realizing what he was getting into or not knowing how to tell them he didn't want to. So anyway I am not only trying to figure out why she is asking about what my son did or didn't do for his part of the project, but who the hell told her that he didn't. So we argue for awhile over texts which is probably stupid on my part but I ask her who told her what David did or didn't do and she has the nerve to tell me that I was the one who told her. WHAT!!!!! Her original text said why didn't David do his part. I was beyond pissed, I figured out then that it was the teacher who told her. So why the hell is the teacher talking about David's school work with anyone? So that will be something that I bring up at this meeting on Thursday cause I will not have anyone discussing David's work or the lack there of without my permission, especially with this one parent who has an opinion on everything that happens with my kids or myself.
Ok so I think I have bitched enough for now I will get back on here and write about Jacob next and that is gonna be fun cause boy is he 5 handfuls!

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