JAXSON STARTED JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN (old post)

Hello Beautiful People,

Last year in January I registered Jaxson for Junior Kindergarten and I was teary-eyed when I was registering him for school.

Now I did A LOT of research on which school would be the best for him. We know we had to apply him to our home school, which I didn't like for many reasons. We did an outbound application for another school which is about 15-20 mins by car.

When we did the application for our homeschool the admin was rude, didn't explain anything about the programs in the school, especially the fact that Jaxson is in Speech Therapy, and she said it was first come first serve um which made no sense since we live 5 mins from the school by walking.  Our home school has high bullying with nothing being done about it. Some of the staff were/are racist. I didn't want Jaxson to go there for a lot of those reasons.

Thankfully the out-of-bounds school we applied to called us and told us they had 1 spot left for Jaxson. We accepted! I went to the school a week later to fill out the paperwork. The admin was absolutely fantastic. She explained everything about the school, gave me a tour of the school, told me that they had a great speech therapy program and etc. Which made me feel relief that I chose a great school.

The first day of school I cried dropping him off at school. We did struggle in the beginning because this was a completely different routine for Jaxson. Thankfully the Teachers, Staff and Principal got together with me to make the transition easier for Jaxson. They aren't letting him fall through the cracks.

Now there is still some issues with his Teachers not being fully open with me about some of their concerns with Jaxson where I have been 100% transparent with them. Jaxson may have ADHD which recognized the symptoms because of myself or he may have Autism. We have a Pediatric assessment booked for May. I can only do so much if concerns are not brought up to me so I can work on them with Jaxson. I am trying my best to get what Jaxson needs and I am trying my best to help Jaxson learn as much as he can. But it needs to go both ways with the Teachers.

We recently had a phone assessment with the Occupational Therapy just the other day. The person I was talking to gave me peace of mind on a lot of things that I was having anxiety over for Jaxson. Now there is somewhat of a wait for that. Thank You Doug Ford and because of the pandemic, they are a little backlogged. And we're STILL waiting for Speech Therapy which I have not heard anything from.

We do have parent teacher interview next week which I will bring up my frustration with the lack of transparency.

Jessy xo