*headdesk*

[conuly]

This was a light homework week because of Halloween, so Evangeline really did have all her work done on the train. Her dad's been picking Ana up and doing homework with them both after school because he's going off to basic training school, so when I saw him after school yesterday I told him three things:

1. Eva has finished all her work.
2. However, I'd like her to rewrite her spelling words twice.
3. And if she reads another chapter of Frog and Toad, have her tell you the story.

For 3 he apparently misunderstood that this was her assigned reading (I wish) and had her write her retelling in her homework book. I would not have even seen it if I hadn't decided to have Evangeline go over her words one more time on the train this morning.

The teacher as good as told me that she thought maybe the only reason Evangeline didn't seem to have trouble retelling stories at home was because she was familiar with them, even though I know for a fact that's not the case. (I wouldn't've even had any conversation with her if she'd just sent Eva down the hall to get the notebook herself. It's all of 50 feet!) It's for precisely this reason that I don't give her books she's familiar with to read. But this will all get sorted out or it won't on parent teacher night.

So now it looks like she's got a sorta very polite, schooly "fuck you" right in the homework notebook! "You think the kid can't do it? HERE'S THE PROOF!"

Either we'll get a snippy letter home today, or we won't but the teacher will have really wanted to write a snippy letter home today. And I actually can't even blame her! I'd do the same thing. (And guaranteed it's just going to seem like she's familiar with the book and/or she had lots and lots of help writing that out. Whatever.)

I really, really want Evangeline to pass that spelling test, though. She should be taking it right about now, so fingers crossed!

Comments

[strega42.livejournal.com]

Hey, this is totally unrelated to your post, but I thought you'd want to see it.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=autisms-fight-for-facts

It seems like an article that fits within one of your typical areas of interest.

Hope y'all are doing well; it's been hella busy so I haven't posted anything in ages to my LJ. Still reading my f-list as I can get to it, though.

[conuly]

Um. You should know that Ms. Singer is the one who felt no compunction about admitting, on a video to be shared nationally and in front of her verbal, autistic daughter that the only thing that kept her from murdering her autistic daughter and killing herself was worries about what her other, normal daughter might feel.

It's not feeling such things that's so bad (although it surely isn't good), it's expressing them in front of her child. A horrible human being.

[strega42.livejournal.com]

I didn't remember that that was her - but I was also more interested in the rest of the article about where the research was going with the genetic stuff.

[conuly]

Honestly, I'd rather they chase off after vaccines. Just so long as nobody dies from it, which I guess... yeah.