A hard decision and a big change.

So as we all know the story never just ends there.....

I knew the psych team, as well as my son's support staff and teacher were meeting a week ago Thursday to discuss the diagnoses and figure what where to go from there. The prospect of switching him from the FI (French Immersion) program into a single language program. My husband and I decided at the time to leave him in the program as we hadn't had a diagnoses and weren't sure it was the right thing to do.

So, the day they meet I get a text from his resource teacher letting me know they just had the meeting and asking if I had a min to talk. I knew that was not good. She called within a few mins and explained that it was strongly recommended we switch my son from the FI program into the English one again. Although he know's french, can speak it, write it, absorb it etc etc he simply won't communicate in the language. If he is asked a question in french he would always answer in English.

My husband and I spent alot of time discussing and weighing our pro's and con's. Now, not only do we have our son to decide on, but we also have our daughter starting school in September as well. We had to consider if it was fair to remove the opportunity from her so that we didn't have two kids in two different schools, or if it was more beneficial to keep her in the same school as her brother.

In the end and after consulting my son, we decided to take make the change. The email I sent to his resource teacher asking her to prepare the transistion package were some of the hardest words I ever typed. My son wanted to go the *English* school. He is excited about the prospect of going to school with my daycare kids and doing work in one language. Knowing it wasn't about me and what I wanted for him, but what is best for him the decision was clear.

My heart is so sad. He has such a strong support system behind him that we've grown so very close to that it's hard to know we are leaving them all behind. Alas, again - it's not about me!

So, the week after March break - he will settle into his new school and today I register my daughter for JK at the same school.

Now, after all of this you would think things would calm down. Wrong..........