Maximizing Instructional time...

...or not. So one of my students, we will call him Abe, consitently leaves early and arrives late to school. Yet he has significant delays and his mother expresses concerns about his progress. This morning he came in at 9:15, which is a full forty five minutes after the school day begins. He typically leaves 45 minutes before the end of the school day. That means that he will loose an hour and a hald, a full 90 minutes of instructional time today alone. When you take out 45 minutes for lunch and 45 minutes for art, that is another 90 minutes, which only leaves three hours in the da. It would be frustrating of and in itself, but then the mother is complaining about his lack of progress.