My daughter was thrown out of the special school for autistic children, so she's going to school here now and I'm going along with her because it did not go well when I did not.
Wow, what happened at the autistic school? I know you went to a lot of trouble to have her go there. She would be going to high school now?
Glad your elbow is getting better. 
After the school hired a new executive director for her fundraising skills, my husband and I were told our daughter turned out to be a bigger handful than they wanted to deal with anymore because she did not transition well to a classroom with other students. Before, they had her in a room alone with her teachers most of the time, but they could no longer afford to use the space for just her.
Our daughter is high school age, but right now, she is going to school in a large classroom alone with three other teachers, plus me. That sounds like a lot, but none of the other teachers are with her all the time except for me. They rotate in and out, since they all have other children they also deal with, while she's my primary focus.
We are working toward having her become able to participate in a self-contained classroom for autistic children for an hour a day, with our support, then we would gradually increase the time.
Right now, we have her going to the cafeteria for lunch most days with the other students but sitting at her own reserved table near the door with me and at least one other teacher. It's tough for her because the other students can be noisy, but she usually wants to go there. If she does not want to go, then we don't make her and if she asks to leave, we leave.
