Accommodations Finalized

We had the "final" IEP meeting today, with the school psychologist, social worker, school nurse, head of special ed and three of her teachers in attendance.  Caroline was supposed to be there but I preferred she wasn't this time because I wanted to talk about her freely as opposed to the last IEP meeting which she attended.  Basically, my assessment of the meeting on a scale of 1 to 10 was a 10, as usual.  This school's IEP team rocks.  We were able to come up with many accommodations including extra time on tests and extra time to compete assignments.

Even so, I am really disheartened by the end of quarter grades.  She ended up with three Ds, two Cs and two Bs.  I am discouraged by her inability to keep all the balls in the air at the same time.  As soon as she focuses on bringing up her grade in one class, she loses focus on her other classes.  One of the accommodations may be to drop one or two of her classes and to add in a resource period with the special ed head to provide some more oversight for her academics.  That could be a good idea.

Honestly, I am just tired of dealing with this today.   Riding an emotional roller coaster all the time when you have a bp kid gets old.

To top it all off, the reduction of the Lithium to address the vision/dizziness/headaches has resulted in a manic swing, so today she went off on a kid in PE and she has been verbally belligerent tonight, very easily irritated and angry.  Tomorrow we will go back to the previous dose of Lithium .  I made another psychiatry appointment for Monday.

Tomorrow we have parent/teacher conferences at the high school.  My husband will try to get with Caroline's teachers and I will go to see Jane's teachers.  Thankfully Jane and Mae are both doing just fine in school so that is something to be grateful for.