School Placement for Triplets - 1 triplet with ADD

Posted by mom1then3 to Just Diagnosed With ADHD (Children) on Dec 16, 2011 at 8:34pm | 0 Comments

I have 5 yr old BGB triplets, that are in Kindergarten.  After a rough start to the year which has resulted in moving B1 to a new school, I now have B1 at one school and G1 & B2 at the school their older brother attends.

B1 just got an ADD (overfocused) with Anxiety diagnosis last week which seems to be connecting the dots to his struggles in school with transitions and such.  At this point, since I have found a school he is doing well in.  I am debating whether or not to try to move him back to the classroom that the others are in now that he has meds on board. He is happy at his new school, but the triplets collectively are having a hard time being separated.  Every morning all three whine and complain that they want to be at the “other school”.  G1 & B2 don’t understand why B1 GETS to be at another school and B1 doesn’t understand why he HAS to be at a different school.

Currently B1 is at a Kindergarten program at a private center.  His siblings are at a Catholic school that only has 2 classes per grade.  So the triplets were all in the same class until I moved B1 out because the school “couldn’t handle him anymore”.

I am also looking ahead to next year and wondering what to do for 1st grade.  Older brother will stay at the Catholic school (he has had to move schools enough already, and since he will be in 4th grade he would only have one more year with the triplets if I moved them all to public school and this school works for him).  So two decisions I need help/input on….

What to do with B1 the rest of this year?  Leave him in the classroom where he is succeeding apart from his triplet bro and sis? or Try to re-integrate him back into the “normal” classroom with his bro and sis now that he is on meds?

What to do next year with all three of the triplets?
Do I try and move all three to a public school where B1 can get services and all three can be in their own distinct classroom? Do I move all three to another Catholic school that has 3 classes of each grade so they are at least getting the same curriculum as older brother? Do I keep all 4 kids at the same school and work with the school to teach them how to work with a child like B1?

Oh, and I am proud to be a full-time working single mom, so it’s not like I can spend the entire day at school with the kids. (their dad is not involved and family is at the closest 2 hrs away)

So many questions….Any resources, input or experiences you can share would be Awesome!