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About school – Remember Pakistan

I talked to my boys this morning about school.

32-p1I 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 in the forefront of their minds.

School Board Election

I Voted Today

I Voted Today (Photo credit: Madison Guy)

It’s official.  I dropped off the letter of intent and statement of interests today.  I am seeking a 3 year term on the school board for our district.  Wish me luck.

Given my background in technology, I imagine that if I get elected, I will be on the technology committee.  Anything that we can do to prepare students for the future, be it technology or what have you, we need to find a way to do it.

It will be interesting to see what happens.  Since we placed David in the psychiatric facility last fall, our interactions with the school have been largely nonexistent.  Other than parent teacher conferences, or IEP meetings for our other children at the high school, things have been for the most part positive.

With that, there will be little for me to write about our district.  If I don’t win election, it will seem like sour grapes.  If I win, I am biting the hand… On the other hand, if something isn’t right, you can be darn sure that I will speak up about it.

That doesn’t mean the end for WhyNotFathers.  I will be moving more toward a goal of writing articles and posts geared to stay at home dads.  I am also going to work on writing a book about David.  Well, it will be about our fight with Reactive Attachment Disorder and mental illness in a child.  It’s affect on the family and the stresses that are involved in raising a child with RAD.  Look for that sometime in the fall of 2013 at the earliest.

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The Personality and the Finger

all but my 3rd finger from left has a growth

Well, my Aspie got mad at someone in PE and flipped them off.  He had to go to the principals’ office for the rest of the class period.

When I confronted the school, last fall, about the student who was bullying their teacher, and getting away with it… they said “that is just her personality”.

So I said, that is just his personality.  But then I explained why that is his personality.

a response to the school:

I am not making excuses for my son.

You do know that he has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, which
is a form of Autism.  His filter’s don’t work like yours and mine.

I agree that this was an appropriate punishment.

He lacks the social skills to understand that an immediate response is
not appropriate.  Although he has made great strides this year in the
area of social skills development, he has a long way to go.  I
appreciate your efforts in this area.

Tanner says the first thing that comes to mind.  That is his nature
and personality.  It is not always appropriate.  Much like a person
with Tourette’s Syndrome needs allowances for the things they say and
do, my son needs to have the same consideration.

I am not saying that what he did was ok. I am saying that our kids need to be held to the same standard. If it is just their personality….

 

 

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