One of the many hard decisions in life...

2009, January 15, Thursday

The time has come for us to make yet another hard decision in life. One that concerns Ivan. As mentioned before, I just could not decide if Ivan should stay in the mainstream setting or not.

The recommendation form a psychologist was that he should be amongst verbal friends, so that he would pick up language easily. Knowing that his classmates were going to follow through, I thought that it would do him good to stay on, at least for another year. After speaking to the VP about this, and getting the extension, I was very pleased that I had made a good decision. But now.... I am not so sure. Ivan has begun to react badly to that decision.

When school started this year, I didn't send him to school on the Friday, as I didn't want him to think that school had started so abruptly and ended with the weekend in a day. So Ivan started school on a Monday, so that he would be used to the same routine as of last year. Unfortunately, there was no orientation to prepare him for the changes. Something that even I had overlooked. I was more concerned that the classroom might have been changed. When I knew it was the same, I thought that all else was fine. I forgot, to look into little things like, the class would be sitting in a different place at assembly. They were far in, compared to near the staircase last year. I would think that where he sat for recess would be different too. Although, I looked into the more obvious stuff I forgot to look into all the details.

Ivan began to say that he didn't want to go to school and threw tantrums if he was forced to do something that he didn't want to. I was getting worried. My hubby and I dint know what we had to do next, but we knew that it was time to make a decision for Ivan. What were we going to do? We prayed and waited upon the Lord for an answer... 

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