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Where Does the Fixing Start? – Think Small and Multi-aged
My grandmother was a teacher. In the 1920s that meant that she was one of the few college-educated women around, especially in rural Missouri. She taught in a one-room school house where all grades...
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Where Does the Fixing Start? – Cut The Bureaucracy
I alluded to this in other posts, but the biggest step I can see toward fixing the problem with special education or public school education in general is to eliminate the bureaucratic mindset. Maybe...
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Where Does the Fixing Start? – Child vs. Student
Some would say it’s a minor thing…semantics…but I think it goes much deeper. I’m really appalled at the trend to refer to my children as “my student” in any communication from the school. It was a...
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Using P.L.A.C.E. in Schools
Cindy Perkins, a school counselor from Maine is on a noble mission. After listening to her at this week’s ATTACh conference, I realized once again what an uphill battle we have in teaching schools how...
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Why Would Schools Retaliate?
It’s happened again. This time to another friend of mine, the adoptive mom of a very traumatized little girl whose most appropriate placement is at home, with teachers and therapists coming to her, to...
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A Bigger Problem Than I Ever Imagined
One of my readers summed up this whole retaliation issue nicely: This is such a big problem – way bigger than I ever imagined when I was fighting my losing battle a few years ago. My sentiments...
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What Can WE Do About Retaliation?
I was introduced last night to an interesting organization and an awesome advocate, Karen Horwitz and the National Association for Prevention of Teacher Abuse (NAPTA). Ms. Horwitz is a teacher whose...
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Teen Birth Rate and Homicides Are Up
According to a new government report, the number of teens giving birth has risen for the first time in 15 years. For every one thousand young women, between the ages of 15 and 17, twenty-two will give...
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Education For Some
My husband and I had to attend the nine week conference at my daughter’s school. At the conference they talk about how your child is doing so far, the areas they need to improve on, and if they are on...
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IEP – The Meeting Finally!!!!
So we finally went to the meeting for my daughters IEP. It has been about a month since I last wrote about it but I was absolutely shocked at the fact of how the teachers would not take responsibility...
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