Question:
What do your kids do during their brain breaks from the classroom?
Background:
I have an AuDHD 10 yo. She has an IEP with service time each day for resource room time. This resource room time has been used for 20-40 minutes of breaktime a day.
My child's biggest challenges at school are focus and impulsivity. These breaks have been scheduled to break up long chunks of classroom instruction. Her TOR has found this to be helpful for my daughter the past year +.
This year, I have found out that my kiddo is being allowed to play on her Chromebook during her breaktimes. We have a statement in her IEP accommodations to minimize computer usage for non essential academic tasks. (Bc this leads to overstimulation and negative behaviors.) I wrote our TOR to ask about the structure of the breaktimes this year and ask for the reasoning for using the Chromebook. The answer back was not fully conclusive but did state that it is up to me as the parent to decide if I want to have (or not have) my child using the Chromebook during these breaks.
Of course, I feel like...let's nix the Chromebook time and maybe only do it once a week or as a reward. However my REAL thought is that I want to trust my child's SPED team to make purposeful and well thought out decisions about what strategies they use to support my child. Not just wait for a parent to pop up out of the wood work to say 'uhmmm what's really happening with the IEP....why is this happening? and can we do this...or NOT do this?
As many of you can relate I feel like a full time project manager keeping up with supporting my kiddo. I wouldn't trade it for anything...just frustrated that school doesn't always make decisions I agree with. I love our district...and believe there are many good people in my child's corner. However...I still get frustrated!
