School starting in a few days.

Another school year is about to start on Tuesday however this year will be a little different.  We have moved school districts and although we decided to let David stay at his former school for the remainder of last year we have also decided that he would be going to his new school at the beginning of this school year.  My wife and me are both graduates of the school that he is going into so that makes me a little more comfortable with it because I know the organization and I know they are a great school.  Change is hard on aspies however, hopefully, we have made that change easier.  When baseball came around David knew that he was going to be changing schools so he wanted to play for the new school's team to meet people that he will be going to school with, his cousin also goes to this school so he knows a few of the kids already.  One change that we may have not been able to adapt to is the class size, at his former school they averaged 40-50 kids per grade and in the new school at least 100 per grade.  They do have more teachers to accommodate the larger number of students so the class sizes are the same.  This year they will be exchanging classes and each kid has their own schedule they are supposed to follow and this is something that David has not had to do before, they did exchange classes for a couple of subjects at his old school but they did it as an entire class so this means that their will be different kids in each different class that he goes to so hopefully he can adapt to that.  We have met the fourth grade special education teacher and took him for a tour of the school to get him used to it because we felt this would be better to do now rather than when school starts that way he won't be too overwhelmed.  The teacher that he has this year is a first year teacher, my wife had a little concern about it but I told her that he will be fine because I feel since she is a first year teacher then she has to establish and prove herself so she would probably work extra hard to achieve that status, hopefully I'm right.  The only other concern that I have is with the events that unraveled at the end of the last baseball season, hopefully not many of the kids from the team will remember the incident and I don't think many of them even knew what happened.  David was still included and involved with those children and they welcomed him and played with him so hopefully they will treat him the same way at school.  I know that David likes friends, as most aspies do, but the reason why we seem that we don't care is because it's hard for us to make friends and usually takes a while to warm up to someone before opening up to them, or at least that's how I feel when it comes to making friends.  Overall I believe that we have took all the precautions to make the change easier on David and we are hoping for support from the school and looking forward to another great school year.