Having our meeting with the school staff today. Her specialist was replaced, as was her history teacher (didn't change class, teacher is no longer teaching it). I was nervous about her history teacher as she was old school and I just didn't see how the two personalities were going to work. There has been some failures in communication within the school on my daughter. Her Interim grades were impacted by missed assignments. She is killing it in Math and French (she has been doing Duolingo on French for over a year because her Nana is doing it), doing well in English and Robotics. History has been a struggle, mainly writing assignments she simply isn't doing, which the interventionist is supposed to catch.
We finally got our school log-in info, so I can finally track this stuff outside of my daughter.
Well, six months later. OMFG! In another thread, it is noted the issues I dealt with in November/December/January. So while this was happening, the school was dropping the ball at epic proportions. My daughter was missing about half of her assignments. Early February we have our biannual school thing with the people to talk. I wasn't pleased, but diplomatic. I don't know, I think my daughter is above their pay grade. But we come up with a bit of alternatives for managing her assignments.
It doesn't work. I'm spending a great deal of my time at home tutoring my daughter in English and History. I'm screwed if this is something I need to do in High School for English. They did something by Ray Bradbury... I can do that... Shakespeare, The Great Gatsby? *EEEEEKKKK!* And when I say tutor, I mean very hard, very difficult, usually blowing up at some point because things aren't working, as I'm trying to bend the material in a zillion ways. I'm getting better at not snapping and being more productive.
So with things going south, tried a sit down with her occupational therapist who has been struggling with her for over a year. And I wasn't really expecting too much due to the very slow progress. And much to my surprise, the short sit down turned into a long fruitful discussion. The therapist is completely on their game, my daughter is the issue. Okay. So she provides advice for how to change things up with the school. And we are in the process of doing that.
Sounds like my daughter, along with ADHD, has written expression disorder... and badly. She is also stubborn... and can't ask for help. But the written expression disorder... gosh that punches the entire ticket. She also struggles with vocabulary and understanding certain things. When doing vocab in class, she can manage, when she does it. But the base vocabulary is a struggle.
Still kicking butt in math and when she tries, in science too.
