This letter comes to thank you, and of course, to request.
Firstly, thank for the conversation we had in your office on Monday. You greeted us with patience and calmness. The conversation included much more than merely understanding the evaluation report itself and touched on questions that have bothered us for years such as: motivation, excess help that possibly interferes with independence and personal initiative. Without a doubt, the conversation with you helped organize our thoughts, mediate family arguments, and helped put the confusion and distress of trying to make the best decision in perspective.
Thank you for the evaluation. You called our home twice, once before the evaluation process and once in the middle. I felt not only professionalism, but also great concern, a rare combination in our times.
It's good that there's a place like Nitzan, because the daily coping with a child that has any type of problem is done alone, with much frustration and distress whether you do good or not.
The report and its conclusions were read with great attention and I already began "to work". On this Friday, I'll be meeting with the school counselor to give her the report.
A new connection has been made with the remedial education teacher who accompanied us through the previous years.
The class teacher "obtained" a tutor who will help my son with homework assignments. For exercise, our son takes wrestling classes with our strong support.
My guiding will and main goal is that he will survive school and won't drop out and therefore I "permit" myself to request your help with the school in receiving an exemption from learning a foreign language in the case of Arabic.
His mother tongue, Hebrew, was difficult for him to learn, even the direction of the letters he had to work on at the "Steps" center. We're fighting for English. Really just that, we've given him a private teacher for constant tutoring! I can't imagine him learning another foreign language: the direction of the letters, to remember words to copy down!
As a result of his physical difficulty in writing (the evaluation also recommends occupational therapy as a result of the build of the palm), would it be possible to recommend to the school to allow homework to be turned in typed and not specifically handwritten?
Is there any way that he can be tested orally? At least in certain subjects like literature, biology, and geography?
I'm including with this letter a copy of his latest report card, which was given in the first quarter of the school year. There's not even one positive grade!
Thank you for your response.