TexSinginMom,

Hello and welcome to PC! What a wonderful idea! My eldest son was in the LD program from preschool. My husband was in the Navy and we moved a lot when he was in elementary school. Once my husband left the service and we moved back to our hometown our experience with the LD program was like night and day, he really had some wonderful teachers.

When we moved to Wisconsin we were pleasantly surprised to discover that not only did they have wonderful teachers, but Wisconsin also assigns them a liaison that is in school available to them at all times. That was very comforting after a few years of dodgy programs. But we were to discover that she was wonderfully unnecessary. This school districts LD teachers are beyond words.

Each year we chose special hand blown ornaments for his teachers at Christmas. I will never be able to thank those teachers enough. My son was mainstreamed with adjustments and encountered some less than cooperative mainstream teacher and his LD teachers stood up for him as he was their child. It literally brought tears to my eyes.

One of his teachers had been an LD teacher for 20 years. You did NOT mess with this woman or any of her students. When she said jump they asked how high. One silly home economics teacher made the mistake of complaining at an IEP that my son was not completing the daily assignments in her class (which was one of the adjustments made for that class) but was doing well on the tests (given to him orally by the LD staff). She implied that he was cheating. Before my brain could even formulate a response, Mrs. T was all over her. By the time she was finished the teacher in question apologized to my son, myself and everyone else in the room.

It was so wonderful that I no longer had to be the one fighting for him all of the time. I wish that I would have had the forethought to bring a cake to the meetings.