Back story. DS has severe learning disabilities as well as some physical disabilities. DS regresses in his learning so doesn't move forward much but it's important to keep him working hard at his own level to keep him at least on an even keel.
DS can't read at all. He can recognise some letters. He can't write, or form any letter, not even ones in his own name. He can't count reliably to 5 and can't count out objects 1:1 at all. He doesn't really understand the concept of number. He is 9 and in a special school. He also has very poor fine motor skills
Last week he got addition homework. Addition to 10, count some tiny pictures and add them up and write the answer.
I complained. Told them it was way above his levels (this is taking the levels off his school report not just me) and told them to either send him appropriate homework or send his targets home and I'd work on the targets. They did the homework at school with him. By did I mean they wrote the answers and DS scribbled over them.
So this week I get his homework and he is to draw a picture of something he likes (he can't draw) and then write a poem about it inside the picture.
I feel like crying. I know he should be able to do it at his age but he can't. Realistically he'll never be able to. He's going to regress and die young and I just want to be able to sit and enjoy doing some appropriate work with him.
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To think this homework is fucking ridiculous
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Hurr1cane · 23/09/2015 15:57
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