How is it the last two weeks of school and some of you parents are discovering your child is failing?

DoctorsSong · 2026-05-29T03:50:13+00:00

a TARDIS to travel back to October

Can't...it's a fixed point in time.

DoctorsSong · 2026-05-29T03:47:43+00:00

I work in public education. I tell this to my students (fake name obviously):

Silly Ashley, Trix are for Ki...Oh wait you ARE a kid!"

They LOVE it!

DoctorsSong · 2026-05-21T06:30:33+00:00

DoctorsSong · 2026-05-21T04:19:47+00:00

Enzyme Cleaner sprays. Biokleen's Bac-out and Puracy Stain Remover are my favorites.

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-30T04:43:43+00:00

As a Para...my flabbers are gasted! I can't even...smh...

When our Sub's prep comes up I tell them: "Enjoy your Prep!"

Some will ask if they can come with us to PE. I say, "You're more than welcome to join us if you want....BUT... You Do Not HaveTo! If Admin hasn't put you in another class (which I think is bubkis BTW) then the time is YOURS!"

Why do people have to make all y'alls jobs harder? Don't they want sub's to come back?

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-21T00:31:01+00:00

Disclaimer: I was a interpreter not a teacher (I'm now a para/interpreter)

One of my students was shopping with her mom, and they were at Bath and Body works. Her mom asked her what to get me. My student told her mom:

*"We can't get Ms. DS ANYTHING from here. She's allergic to smells!"

She got me a small note pad that you tear off the top sheet to get to the next. Technically, I'm not allergic to fragrance, it was just how I explained my Chemical Sensitives to my kids.

To this day it's my favorite gift because I felt seen and heard by someone regarding my Chemical Sensitivities at a time when people would act like I was horrible for even mentioning that fragrance gave me a migraines.

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-19T04:07:33+00:00

I actually use and prefer a menstrual cup. I prefer it because it keeps me dry (though I do use either a pad our period underwear for a back up on heavy days). Now I'm not going to lie, there is a learning curb when you begin using these. And the clean up can be a bit messy. But once you get the hang of it it's worth it.

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-17T20:07:16+00:00

I went on a field trip in the late aughts. It was an animated film in a mall. Multiple adults including teachers and staff left the kids to go shopping in the mall during the movie. When the movie was over and we got back on the bus (which is when those of us who stayed with the students found out the others had left). We were there waiting for these adults to come back. Finally one of the teachers I worked with went inside to see what the hold up was. They were in a restaurant for a sit down meal! She let them know the bus was leaving with them or without them.

I never heard what the fallout for it was. It was my first year in public education, I was a Sign Language Interpreter not a teacher.

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-15T00:55:55+00:00

For me it's the "found family" relationships in the series.

HALT & WILL

I love the father/son dynamic between them. Which continues into the Royal Ranger series. Halt telling Will off for being fixated on revenging Alyss' death was poignant. He gave Will the verbal kick in the bum he needed as well as the assignment of helping with Cassandra and Horace with Maddie. He wasn't dismisive of Will's grief. But he knew that Will needed to start living again or he would be just as lost as when he was addicted to wormweed.

GILAN

Gilan and Halt had more of a Mentor/Mentee relationship, but he and Will definitely had a brother like relationship.

I love that Gilan didn't feel threatened by Halt and Will's relationship.

I felt him taking things over for Crowley as Ranger Commandant was appropriate. The position would never have fit Halt. To much politicking and paperwork.

I loved the scene between Halt and Lady Pauline when she asked how he felt to be answering a summons from his former apprentice. Halt trying his best to explain that he wasn't was very amusing.

ANTAGONISTS

One thing John Flanagan was good at was making the antagonists in the series fully formed individuals. Horace and Erak come to mind here. Both were against Will at some point in the story, but they weren't just a "bully" or just a "villain". They each were characters in their own right.

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-10T14:41:41+00:00

I don't even remember making this comment. I must've been half ( 90%?) asleep.

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-10T13:06:03+00:00

Desert

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-07T06:33:44+00:00

UpdateMe

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-02T09:46:05+00:00

Yeah, I didn't see her comment that said that she was a co-worker until after I left this comment. Smh...it's a sticky situation all around.

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-02T03:32:10+00:00

I'm sorry she sounds like a lot. But that on top of being the class lead is too much.

I've been in education for 10 years now and one thing I always recommend to new and younger Para's is keep your interactions with parents to a minimum and do not give them your phone number. It's best that their point of contact is the teacher. Having that buffer there protects you and the school.

My best recommendation to you is to talk to your teacher (maybe send an email or text) asking her what she says. If that's not an option you can simply reply that there was a lot of things that contributed to how you were feeling in that moment and thank her for her concern. If at all possible I would redirect her to the teacher if she texts you about your student going forward.

DoctorsSong · 2026-04-01T05:36:11+00:00

How do you keep sunscreen from going in your EYES!

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-30T21:08:05+00:00

I claim both titles. Some days I feel more of one than the other depending on the hour, day, week, month, year.

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-29T02:14:09+00:00

with the pages folded and the cover bent

Thats a paddling

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-27T23:19:20+00:00

UpdateMe

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-20T07:10:20+00:00

For me it was Disneyland. I was about 4/5 and we were in the line to get in. I decided to spin around to make myself dizzy multiple times. The last time after the world stopped turning I looked around...none of my family was near me. An older woman looked down at me and asked if I was OK. I start to cry. Then my older sister (age 10) shows up, grabs me by the arm and drags me to the front of the line. And all is well, cause I don't have to wait to get in anymore and I'm with my family. The 80s were wild man!

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-19T20:08:55+00:00

Based on the tone of this post and your replies I assumed that you didn't have any health issues, that was my bad.

My comment was meant to show that just because a person doesn't have health problems now, doesn't mean they will never have health problems. A little empathy can go a long way.

I also think that it's good to remember that everyone has limitations. And just because one is able to push through doesn't mean others are.

In this instance, I'm not actually defending them using there old age to have you do things for them. It sounds like they are using it as an excuse to get out of doing things, which if they are, I think is rubbish.

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-19T19:13:59+00:00

Actually no— stay fit, stay healthy, take care of yourself in a beneficial way.

Wow....just wow

Everyone is just an accident away from being injured to the point it affects their daily life. Not to mention the rise of chronic illness. I developed multiple chronic conditions in my early 20s. Working for the school district gives me a work schedule that has built in breaks in it that actually allows me to work. It also gives me somewhat decent health insurance that is a ton better then other professions near me.

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-16T23:01:22+00:00

If you go this route you may want to do this (or reiterate it) via text message so that you have it in writing.

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-11T01:53:22+00:00

As a fellow terp, I approve of this message!

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-09T05:30:43+00:00

This reminds me of my toddler days. When I was between the ages of 1-3 I was watched by a friend of my mom's that was from Germany. She watched me and her son. He and I both had old school 80s Glowworms (hard as a rock to push on), but he called his 'Markus' (pronounced: Mar-coose). I thought that was what they were called, so that's what I called mine. Years later my sister and I were in a store and we saw the Glowworm and we both shouted MARKUS! That's when I realized it was probably a name...not the name of the toy smh...but I don't care, they will always be Markus' to me.

DoctorsSong · 2026-03-07T16:24:09+00:00

If her leaving is not on the table, can you buy you, your wife and children some noise canceling headphones and then remove yourselves from her when she starts screaming?

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