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Our Favorite Special Ed Teacher

Today’s post is about our favorite special education teacher. Yes. I know what you are thinking.. “Again? What did this person do now?” Actually, it isn’t what you think. This teacher has moved to a new district, and while I am happy that the teacher is no longer working with my children, and hasn’t been for a few years actually, I do have knowledge of their work through my bride. So let me say this. This post is not about complaint. Rather, I am proud of what this teacher has accomplished this year. This teacher is in a work environment where they can get the support that they need to excel at being the kind of special education teacher I think that they can be. And I think that they will be the kind of teacher that they hoped to be when they first started out to become an educator. The kind

About school – Remember Pakistan

I talked to my boys this morning about school. I said, “imagine wanting to go to school so bad that you will risk attending even when there is a chance that someone with religious ideals that are different from yours might decide to take over the school and blow it up, along with the students inside.” My middle son, commented, “it would make me not want to go to school.” So this morning, as we embrace our comfortable lives, and wrap our hands around the warm cup of coffee, let’s remember those 12 to 16 year old boys who were killed this morning. The danger for these young people and their teachers isn’t over. Authorities are actively working to render the rest of the school complex safe. And the death toll may rise. 130 your people killed. For what? Yet these young people go to school everyday with that risk

It’s not our fault.

Most of my readers know me from facebook. I am in a number of groups there, and while I would love to list them all here, it would break some aspects of confidentiality for me to do so. What I see most often in the groups that I am a part of is: “part of this is my fault. If I had done this, or that, he/she wouldn’t have had the meltdown.” When you are dealing with a child that has a mental illness, things happen that are beyond our control. Even if said child is biological rather than adopted. I tell my readers here the same thing as what I tell those in my various groups. “It is not our fault.” Simply words really. Unless you directly caused the trauma that made your child the way he or she is, it really is not your fault. As a parent,