Please just let me get through this school year without having another nervous breakdown.

Trying not to cry,

Me.

Got the letter this weekend.

"Unfounded -- no further services required at this time." Again.Upon discussing this matter with my guildmaster -- yes, my WoW guildmaster, who in his real life is a child psychologist with an autistic son himself -- suggested that we a) shop for another school (and sent us a bunch of links related thereto) and b) ( Read more... )

Why, yes, I think I did ( Read more... )

...you know...THOSE calls. From the school ( Read more... )

...in a manner that is lightheartedly OFFS, here we go again type mildly sarcastic, but I fear that my ability to generate such content is severely degraded at the moment. My Urge To Kill is refusing to throttle down enough to allow it ( Read more... )

The reason why many textbooks have a bias against the Crusades and, subsequently, the Crusaders is because the fucking Crusades were a two-century-long orgy of rape and pillage against everything that moved in the middle east and certain less-Christian-than-thou portions of Europe, only barely disguised by a threadbare cloak of piety in the first ( Read more... )

So!

I received a phone call from the OVES school psychologist today. The good news? Callan most definitely qualifies for Special Education (and therefore Special Education funding through the school district) in her estimation. The bad news? That this determination came after the crap we went through last year and after the testing she ( Read more... )

So. Callan has been back in school for...a little over a week, due to holidays. He's been riding the regular school bus in and, thus far, the school is provisionally pleased with his progress. They want to meet with us, of course, but that's to be expected. He's started his autism spectrum testing; he's had other testing; he's supposed to have an ( Read more... )

...For values of 'better' that mean 'why I am I fucking doing this again? Oh, that's right, because if I don't, the state reserves the right to take my son away because I'm refusing to cooperate!'

As you know, for the last several months, we have been engaged in the frustrating process of attempting to obtain educational wraparound services for ( Read more... )

The Saga Thus Far:

Cleared of specious child abuse charges! Yay!

Productive conversation about getting Callan an IEP and educational wraparound services through the state! Yay!

Assessment for Callan arranged through private child psychologist/medical services provider! Yay!

The problem?

The fucking school nurse who accused us of child abuse in the first ( Read more... )