Do they hate school?
January 26, 2009
I hear so often that kids with Aspergers really do not like school. I know my son would rather be schooled at home, or in a robotics studio somewhere. But, he is so young, it’s really hard for me to know how much school impacts him - positive or negative. But, I read blogs like this one:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/posts56291-start15.html
and I wonder if this is how my son will think of school in the future. Since schools are geared towards putting the square peg in the square hole and aren’t geared towards the round peg, people often ask me why I bother sending my son to a mainstream school. I ‘think’ I am doing the right thing. The Aspergers experts tell me that he lacks the social knowledge, not the academic knowledge - that he can learn the academics anywhere but that being in a mainstream classroom will help him learn the social aspects of life.
Well, that seems to make sense. But, how difficult is it for him emotionally to be in school all day long? It’s so hard for me to know. I hear so often of adolescent Aspergers kids being diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder due to the abuse, bullying, ridiculing, etc. that they have experienced in school. I don’t want this to happen to my child. But I also want to give him the opportunity to mainstream if he is able. It’s a difficult balance and a difficult decision. I wish there was more information and more experts that knew exactly what to do. I get so much mixed messages that I feel like no one really knows the right answers.
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