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Pasco County student highlights Hospital Homebound instruction, family praises teacher
Summary
Lincoln, a fifth-grade student at Denim Oaks Elementary, and his parent described how Pasco County's Hospital Homebound program enables him to continue school at home despite myotubular myopathy; a home instructor demonstrated a place-value lesson during the presentation.
Lincoln, a fifth-grade student at Denim Oaks Elementary, described his learning in Pasco County's Hospital Homebound program and said, "My favorite subjects are math and science."
His parent, speaking during the presentation, said Lincoln has myotubular myopathy and praised his classroom teacher, Amanda Kirk, saying, "She has been a wonderful, wonderful teacher for him this year." The parent said the home-instruction option lets students with medical needs "receive the same quality education that they would if the kiddo was going to school, but they're able to receive it at home."
A homebound instructor demonstrated a brief place-value exercise with Lincoln and told him, "We're gonna practice place value to start." The recording shows the instructor working directly with Lincoln on two initial problems and then prompting him to continue the exercise independently.
The parent and the instructors emphasized Lincoln's cognitive strengths; the parent said his disability "causes the weakness, but cognitively, that truly was his greatest...defense in life," and credited the district programs for his progress. Lincoln said he wants to work in the medical field and later become a doctor.
No formal action or vote was recorded in the transcript excerpt; the item was a presentation and testimonial about the Hospital Homebound program and the student's progress.
