A very, very, very bad day at school

Joseph successfully completed 7 days of 3rd grade and then came today.

I’m not sure why my son acts the way he does. I don’t understand the motivating factors. In this case, Joseph’s outburst, tantrum, reaction (whatever you want to call it) was verbally directed toward his teacher. Add in his unerring stubborness and a huge scene was caused. Joseph spent his lunch and a portion of his day in the principal’s office…. just like last year. 🙁

I want to crawl under my desk and pretend the phone isn’t ringing when I see WCPSS show up on the caller Id screen. I let myself believe he had grown and matured and was really ready for public school again; I know I am not physically, mentally or emotionally capable of doing homeschool again.

I must give kind kudos to his principle and teacher though as neither wants to remove him from the classrom or school. In fact, they have made some suggestions for evaluations (academic and behavioral) that we are going to authorize to try and get to a root cause for his anger, anxiety and stress at school. I only wish this type of thing had been suggested last year.

I heard on the radio the other day about how there is generally one teacher in every kids’ life that has a major impact. I am hoping and praying that Ms. Bowers, at TCE is it for Joseph. At this point, we must leave it to others and God to guide us in helping him. So, if you are reading my blog, please keep us in your prayers as I anticipate a very stressful coming few weeks, worrying each and everytime my phone rings.