Maria Kennedy

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439 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2022 last heard Mar 2022

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 284: Maria Kennedy on What's Needed & What's Next in the Movement to Support 2e Students · 8 Mar 2022 podcast

I said, What are you talking about?

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He kept on getting sent out.

He was pushing the fold.

And my mother said, kid's got ADHD, he's hyperactive.

So obviously, I'm going, I don't want to be a parent in denial.

So if there is something that my son needs, then I need to go get him tested.

So obviously, we took him to get tested.

And the therapist said, psychologist said, the kid's just gifted.

And in that environment, he's not going to be able to be.

Successful and we needed to take him out.

And um I had always been, you know, stalwood about public education and kids being in public ed, and that's where they should be, and we shouldn't be sending them to private school.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So poor me had to send my child to private school because that was the only place that his needs could be met and the place where people would be flexible enough to give him what he needed.

So as a result of that.

working in public school, I'm going, these kids need the same access that the kids in private school have.

And so that then has kind of become my mission.

What do my kids need and what are they not getting in their in their education?

And um one of my students, um, a seven-year-old, I was teaching, and he again, like my little man, was a math wizard.

So at seven, he was doing uh long multiplication and long division.

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