Looking for advice. My DS main teacher (math, language, sci) has not been teaching him much at all the last few months. He recently said he had not done any math at school for a couple of weeks. He had some language work he didn't get done at school (writing some descriptive paragraphs) and the teacher said he would miss break time to get it done. I suggested he could do it for homework but she insisted she likes her students to complete their work in class time. Here it is a week later and she never had him complete the work in class -- it's like she forgot about it!
I will clarify my DS is in a partially integrated setting. He has ASD so he has the core subjects of math, sci, language in a smaller ASD classroom as he works at a slower speed and needs extra instruction. But his math skills are at grade level if he actually gets taught (I know this from teaching him myself and having a private psycho educational evaluation done). He attends all the other subjects in the regular class and does fine.
He's had the same special needs teacher for three years now. In the beginning he seemed to do enough work and learning. Then last year halfway through the year his teacher's DH got sepsis and has been hospitalized ever since. My son had a supply teacher for the second half of last year who effectively babysat them. Now the old teacher is back but if I ask my son what he is working on learning in math he says he doesn't know. The class regularly does art (even though he already has art with the regular class) or goes on walks or watches movies and math is only done by playing an online math game (when it does seem to happen).
I am starting to teach my DS at home again as I am worried about him getting behind. I don't want to go to war again with another teacher as I have been through this four times already with special needs teachers basically babysitting and not teaching. Also, because I know the teacher's husband was basically rendered an permanent invalid (he is still at the rehab hospital) I don't want to be too hard on her, but why should my DS education suffer because she doesn't have the will or the spirit to teach? Also he will still have this teacher one more year, next year, before a new one comes along. WWYD?
TL;DR---Teacher not doing their job properly anymore but I know they have had a life changing sick family member so don't want to go too hard on them? But my DS isn't getting a proper education so he needs outside tutoring now! WWYD?