HUGE Decision!

I got a call today from Masons speech pathologist from last year. She was wondering where Mason was attending school this year so that she could transfer his services. I told her that we had chosen to homeschool and so I figured that we would just stop his speech. She said that Mason can still receive speech at his home school which would be Earhart. For those that don't know we have had bad situations with Earhart from the minute I enrolled him in Kindergarden there to filing a transfer just in case we chose public school. The principal has not been very kind to us at all. So needless to say him receiving speech there would not be a good idea. She said that she would talk to her supervisor and see if Mason could receive his speech at Miami since our request was approved for him to attend there. I have a really close friend of mine that works there and they have a wonderful program.

So, heres my delima. GLASS, in my opinion, has not helped him much. I was very excited to not have to deal with them anymore as I would leave every meeting in tears. They really aren't even working on speech with him, its more concepts. So in my opinion it was a waste of his time to be pulled out of class for it. Since he has received it since Kindergarden up until 2nd grade he has made tremendous amount of improvement, but I'm not sure we can attribute that all to GLASS. I'm not trying to brag on myself or anything really, but I have always had a huge passion for helping him succeed and worked with him constantly! And we were truely blessed with amazing teachers that helped him thoughout the years while not making him feel like he was being singled out. For example they would turn something into a class thing when he struggled with something. It was wonderful. I really feel like its just little things he has now that need to be worked on, using the right context occasionally and a few sounds. But nothing major, really. Again I'm not trying to sound all anti-GLASS. Really I'm not.

I'm not sure taking time out of our schedule twice a week for 20 minutes is really going to do him much good. I am also afraid that the public school will get involved and we will be checked up on to make sure we're actually homeschooling. I don't want to cause a huge dramatic situation. Does that make sense? I also don't want to tell them no and then that cause them to start sending people out as well. Along with the fact that I don't want Mason to get confused on going into a school and then doing school at home. He is a very routine child and does not handle change well at all. You see why this is a HUGE decision!

So my prayer is that God will lead me to do whats best for Mason and our family and that if that is to stop services that there will be no trouble with the public schools and if it is to continue services through Miami that Mason will adjust to it well.



Side note...I had a hard enough time walking through Target today with the kids for fear that someone would ask why he wasn't in school. That was until I saw other older kids with their mom as well. It was still ackward though.