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So, she runs up to me and starts blathering about this kid. During the onslaught she manages to ask if he was on my caseload. I reply yes. She continues to babble on and thrusts a piece of paper in my hand, it is the accommodations page of his IEP. As she begins to walk away she rambles on about some teacher complaining that they never got the information and I need to take care of it. I check my records, and indeed, the information in question was disseminated in September. Rather than do my job twice because someone doesn't read what we gave them or misplaced the original, I fire off an email to the kid's teachers. "Please refer to the transfer of information form distributed to you in September for {so and so's} accommodations. If you would like an additional copy of that information, please see me." I got a bit peeved because I have to do my work twice because somebody didn't do theirs once. Never mind the fact that I have between 5 and 10 more students on my caseload than any other special education teacher; that I still have to teach classes; that I have to do all of the initial evaluations (an IEP and a MET) totaling some additional 10 to 15 IEP's over the 21 on my caseload; that I have to arrange, apply, and ensure accommodations and administer tests for the 9th grade MEAP, the 10th grade PLAN, and the 11th grade ACT/MME; that I have to be available to help students during the two short hours set aside for me to do all of the extra stuff (excluding my caseload); that I have work based visits to perform; that I have to plan transition field trips to Macomb Community College, MCTI, and MISD; that I have to clear up my certification as some endorsements have mysteriously dropped off; and the fact that I have to respond to all kinds of emergencies, some real (drug overdose this week) and some imagined ("no, I don't have time to make copies for you").
I have tried so hard to keep upbeat in this journal, but people sometimes make that very hard to do.
Twenty Things I Like
My kid is campaigning for Dwight Schrute for President.
My car has 135,000 miles on it and the check engine light went off after I replaced the gas cap.
It is too cold to ride my motorcycle now.
I voted absentee so I wouldn't have to wait at the polls to vote.
My furnace filter needs changing.
I don't have to cut my grass very often anymore.
My bunnies have dug an underground burrow for the winter and they have their winter coats already.
My dead bunny, Hazel, has a rock with his name on it in the back yard.
We haven't picked up dog logs all summer.
We haven't gotten our turkeys yet, last chance this weekend.
I have Monday off to go turkey hunting.
I saw my sister's fiance at Dick's, buying a gun for his brother. It came with a turkey barrel.
I took grape soda to my brother last week. He's still a turkey.
Tomorrow is PayDay!
Thankgiving is my sister's birthday (mine too).
I got to talk to my son J this week and invite him over for Thanksgiving.
I still need to invite A for Thanksgiving.
I cut my thumb cutting the lid off our pumpkin.
M finished the job.
Our Halloween Pumpkin is Awesome!
I have tried so hard to keep upbeat in this journal, but people sometimes make that very hard to do.
Twenty Things I Like
My kid is campaigning for Dwight Schrute for President.
My car has 135,000 miles on it and the check engine light went off after I replaced the gas cap.
It is too cold to ride my motorcycle now.
I voted absentee so I wouldn't have to wait at the polls to vote.
My furnace filter needs changing.
I don't have to cut my grass very often anymore.
My bunnies have dug an underground burrow for the winter and they have their winter coats already.
My dead bunny, Hazel, has a rock with his name on it in the back yard.
We haven't picked up dog logs all summer.
We haven't gotten our turkeys yet, last chance this weekend.
I have Monday off to go turkey hunting.
I saw my sister's fiance at Dick's, buying a gun for his brother. It came with a turkey barrel.
I took grape soda to my brother last week. He's still a turkey.
Tomorrow is PayDay!
Thankgiving is my sister's birthday (mine too).
I got to talk to my son J this week and invite him over for Thanksgiving.
I still need to invite A for Thanksgiving.
I cut my thumb cutting the lid off our pumpkin.
M finished the job.
Our Halloween Pumpkin is Awesome!