And The Final Answer Is NOT Pomerene

Well after a whole Summer of worrying where my kids were going to go to school at this year we got our answer this morning. It is Benson. I am not happy with it but everything happens for a reason. Maybe it'll be a great thing and I may just be reverting to my terrible time at Benson Middle School. Even walking down the paths with David yesterday brought back some not so fond memories for me. To clear up some confusion this may cause my kids were going to Benson until David was in 2nd grade and there was a big mess, their dad tried to take em from school... it was not pretty.... and I took them out and homeschooled them (well mostly my mom did), then we put the boys into Pomerene and they were wonderful for my boys. David is just convinced Pomerene School is "evil" because kids teased him and the teacher well just don't get me started on her.... but what he doesn't realize is how much the school actually did for him especially the principal. I really admire Dan Bailey a lot. Not that Shad Housley will be a bad principal because I'm not saying that at all... he's married to my cousin and I think he's a great guy..... My mom seems to think that maybe someone will be there to help David. I hope so because the school therapist we dealt with was not one of my most favorite people in the world. Before we knew David's diagnosis hetried to give david a diagnosis of his own without doing the tests and "labeled" him with Mild Mental Retardation. Well as you could probably see what happened next I went rip roaring on him and told him I knew without a doubt that he was wrong and that I knew David had Autism. He asked me how I knew and I told him "Well because I've done research on it and because my nephew is Autistic and he is a lot like him in many ways". Needless to say I was not happy with him (putting it very lightly). And then there is also the issue of the kids being cruel. Some of the kids in Pomerene were very cruel to him because of the fact that he's different. Now I know that David starts a lot of it, it's his defense mechanism.... he tries to stop people from doing something even if they didn't do it. So anyway..... there's some of my venting of the day. I really hope and pray that there is a good reason for this decision. It just so happened that 8 kids moved into pomerene school during Summer Vacation and we are not in district. So..... Here we are back in Benson School.