So much avoidance of responsibility. With the Fed Gov bailing out Special Education is in deep trouble.

glatt wrote:

My wife was an elementary school based sub for years and quit during the pandemic.The lack of respect administrators in this school district had for teachers was really shocking to me. My wife would occasionally read emails to me that were blast emails sent out by the administration to all teachers, and it blew my mind how uncaring and harsh the emails were. And I feel like Arlington is supposed to be one of the good ones.

We had a Team Meeting last night and I had a side conversation about Covid breaking education. The OT I was talking to supports 74 kids in a local school district. 74 students in multiple buildings on one brand new OT's caseload. He's got kids who have missed 30+ days of school and expect to move up to the next grade level. It feels like everyone in the system is kinda broken, kids, parents, teachers, administrators, and school boards. If people pull together it can get sorted but empathy is a bad word now. 

On a side note, Lil G's administrator, who has always had her back, was quietly removed by the district without explanation.
 

I'm retiring at the end of the month. They only have staff for 6 of my 24 current kids and already had a wait- list. Thankfully we have an administration that hates teachers so things will get turned around right away.

That’s not great.

There is a furring strip imbedded in the foam that we can screw to. I don't think we're putting them up because we want the full width available for hauling stuff. It's only 33" wide so you can press the sides or hold the top of the wall. I laid them out with a square and stair gauges so they're pretty even. I only laid it out wrong twice. lol You can see earlier marks on some treads.

So I blew out my calf skiing so that didn’t happen. Ha!

There is a lot to unpack here. Pete's cousin was a hearing child raised in a deaf home. The deaf culture is recognizably different. The community is tight and tends toward religiosity. There is a lot of pushback against being "fixed" because that special culture will dilute with a move towards hearing. As an aside her cousin got to be the cool kid in her neighborhood because cranking stadium rock at home didn't bother her parents.. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/rfk-jr-autism-study-medical-records/

I worry a bit about this administration and data. They haven’t shown much interest in actually improving people’s lives but they seem to have interest in eugenics. On its face, a good data base of information should be useful, maybe Pete Hegseth can handle security.

Wow. Sorry Dana that sounds like a horror show.

Anon wrote:

POTUS’s pet.

PH may have been shooting (pun intended) his mouth off in Signal chat trying to impress TG in hopes of eventually getting into Tushi’s pants. He may even want her to be his fourth wife. Others are excusing the behavior on the grounds that all’s fair in love and war, especially when they’re happening simultaneously.

Ah, this may explain why the fourth wife is attending high level meetings with him.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-brought-his-wife-to-sensitive-meetings-with-foreign-military-officials-c16db0ea?st=nEJGiv

Ha! I live with that lady.

I wish that was more reassuring.