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So a little backstory my son just turned 4 in September and for the first time he's been enrolled in school so he's in preschool now. Mind you he's a covid child so very little contact with other people's kids except for controlled situations and obviously not a lot of socialization outside of family members and us as his parents. He's been in school for about a month when he started within the first week he was evaluated with what they referred to as a Brigance Screening. I'm very new to this this is my first child but I'm very angry because since that's come up it's always been about the test. He's very intelligent child he picks up concepts quickly but he is hard to corral sometimes. And even at Age 3 he was reading and spelling a little bit he knows his colors he knows letters. When they tested him he got a lot of zeros in certain areas and it's not very indicative of who he is. I know everyone wants to say their kid is smart and all that stuff he genuinely is I think he gets very distracted around groups of kids and larger crowds but he's also not used to that and he literally just turned four to evaluate him so early as opposed to letting the school year go on for some time and maybe testing him much later might have made sense. We also have a mixed race background my wife is St Lucian and I'm polish so our son kind of falls in the middle of how we look. My wife kind of feels like it's a little bit of a race thing because it's always telling him what he's done wrong as opposed to giving us some optimistic reports or at least giving a specifics as to what could be done to correct certain behaviors. I'm in the same mindset but to hear from the teacher that he quote unquote stole something from another kid or push them I'm like this is what little kids do and they have to learn it's not acceptable. It's so early on in his school career but we're getting frustrated with the school and the teacher. We're both angry we want what's best for him but he doesn't need special education for his behavior which is essentially what they evaluated him to need but a behavior has nothing to do with an IEP. I don't know , we have to meet with them on Thursday to discuss what the teachers actually doing. Has anyone else had to deal with this whether it be the same or similar situation I just need some guidance because I want what's best for my son but I'm just angry and I'm also trying to understand because we're parenting him we're trying to correct him in the home space so that when he's in school he doesn't act out or have problems.
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