progress

Today we had Calvin's annual IEP. I was blown away by one section which reported the progress we have seen since Calvin started at cook education center 2 years ago.

"during a 49 day period prior to 3/21/12 Calvin engaged in hitting 136 times, throwing 174 times, disrupting others by making noises 275 times, property destruction 23 times, defiance 70% of the time and attempted urination in the classroom 4 times."

WOWZERS! Life was crazy.

"Calvin has had 2 incidents of problem behavior since the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year"

This is AMAZING. This school has blessed our life so much.  We have only been there 2 years and I had not realized how much progress we have made. We still have much progress to make before Calvin would be ready for a less restrictive environment, but it is so great that he is a "model student" in his current setting.

Other thoughts....either we are super blessed that he has come to this point so that we are in a position to move him to a new school in Houston OR we are crazy to even think about making a change when we've come so far and have so far to fall.  I am trying to move forward with faith that it is the former.

Now that our IEP is up to date we are ready for the next steps in our process.  First, I can fax it to a couple of Houston school districts and see what placement they would recommend for Calvin and then we can go to Houston and see the schools that are a possibility for us. Once again, I'm hoping things look good and we can have a smooth transition to a great new school that will be just right for Calvin.