Just about ready to cry -- Teacher is a blabbermouth!

[pweyl36]

wow, I think you need to take a deep breathe, and realize that the teacher saying something won't ruin your trip. If your whole enjoyment is hinging on the surprise factor, you need to get over it.
Everyone one has lots of stress in their lives, everyone has bad things happen, that doesn't entitle YOU to send a screaming email to a teacher who had a slip up. Its not up to her to keep it a secret, if you didn't want someone to possibly say something, you should of kept it a secret from everyone.

 

[badblackpug]

You sound like an experienced soul--thank you for that post! And you are absolutely right. If he was the type of kid who wigged out about changes in routine no way would i throw a surprise of this magnitude on him! I am neither cruel nor clueless about my son. If he knew in advance, he would make himself and the rest of us completely nuts obsessing about it. That def. figured in as part of the surprise. BTW, we do this about most everything--going to the beach, to the amusement park, whatever--at most we announce it one day in advance. We've learned. ;-)

His thing are sensory issues (which is why we plan a lot of quiet time and down time when at the parks, and use alternate entrances. he can wait, but he needs space or then he WILL go into system overload). So we build that in to our days. He obsesses about things. you know that promo film they play in the hotel rooms with Stacy? Talks about the rides and the parks? He will watch that over and over and OVER again. Funny thing, he rarely watches anything about the Disney parks at home when we catch something on travel channel or such--but that Promo film in the hotels he will watch till the cows come home and then some. (Daddy is threatening to de-power the TV on this trip because he's not sure he can take non-stop-stacy again ;-)

Autism indeed is a spectrum disorder. If you met our son, you'd think he was a typical kid. It's not until you spent some real time observing him that you'd notice he seems "off". The kinder words are Different and Unique. The crueler words are Weird and Strange. It's tough--he has very few peer age friends. Adults adore him, kids his age shy away. One of the reasons for this trip is ALL the boys in his class dissed him for their birthday party last year. It was him and 15 girls. He was ok with it then, but given the changes I've seen in him this year, I don't think he'd be ok this time. And frankly, I'm glad we are going away and I don't have to face the birthday party this year. One less hurt I have to see against my sweet, funny, different child.

Thank you again for your post.

None of my kids have autism spectrum disorders and they watch this over and over again, too! I can't stand it, either! (I have a very un-Disney nickname for Stacy) Can your husband come "de-power" our TV, too?

 

[queensara]

Oh my goodness, you all need to relax. Instead of jumping all over her, defending teachers (we all know there are some great teachers and some not so great) and getting into a great debate over school work and school policies. Why not be supportive. Yes she flipped out, yes she sent a screamin email to the teacher, but haven't we all flipped out over something someone else thought was trivial? When that happens the last thing you want or need is to have people rip you apart. Come on, I thought the purpose of the disboards were to help each other with our vacations and planning. So where is the help? Give her ideas to relax or give her ideas to help keep the secret. Maybe we all should remember what Thumpers dad told him I hope your vacation is awesome. I hope you can keep the secret and your kiddos reactions are stupendous