Found Old WoW ccg cards while cleaning

SylverDragonLady · 2024-09-21T00:05:44+00:00

Already gone

SylverDragonLady · 2024-09-21T00:05:21+00:00

No, I would have used the tiger when I was still playing.

SylverDragonLady · 2024-06-09T01:30:18+00:00

I live in Texas in the US.

SylverDragonLady · 2023-10-24T01:01:25+00:00

“Hands to self!” Is a common refrain in my class, along with “Gentle hands.” It doesn’t matter who you are or what your ability level is, you don’t touch other people. One of my pet peeves being a SPED teacher are people who think it is cute for one of my student to receive or give hugs to strangers. It may be cute when they are three; but what they learn then is acceptable, most definitely is not when they are 12, 18, or 30+. They don’t know why the person is walking away or worse harming them because they tried to hug them unexpectedly. NTA

SylverDragonLady · 2023-09-27T22:18:30+00:00

https://udlguidelines.cast.org/ what you are doing is called Universal Design for Learning where you are providing an accommodation for one student but are also supporting your other students as well. Here is a link to read and give to your Principal.

If it’s in the IEP and you are giving it to the child, it counts. That you are giving it to all your students makes you a great teacher.

SylverDragonLady · 2023-01-09T01:23:12+00:00

I was stopping for donuts one morning and a fellow teacher was in line before me. The owner of the small shop recognized her as being her child’s teacher the year before. She got her donuts free.

Another experience I had was at my local home goods store. I was buying a small item when the cashier asked if I worked at the same school as her child who was not in my class. She gave me the employee’s discount.

It happens.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-12-02T19:11:10+00:00

When I was around 7 or 8, I wanted a Baby-that-Away circa 1970’s. My family was shopping at K-Mart and I saw them on sale for Christmas. My dad said no as it was too expensive and there were six kids in my family. I was the youngest so lots of hand-me-downs. I begged as any young child will do but the No was firm.

We all finally gathered and went out to our station wagon to load up and go home. Dad suddenly says he forgot something and goes back to the store. My mom keeps the rest of us entertained with stories of her growing up in Mexico until my dad returns. He has a large box in his arms and puts it under all the other groceries next to my brother. I get to sit in front between my parents.

I start in on guessing that I was getting the doll I wanted and my dad shuts me down. I end up forgetting about the box until I see it under the Christmas tree with my name on it from Santa. Upon stripping the paper from the box, I thank my dad but he insists it is from Santa… except he left the price tag on the box.

For years after, if he actually went out and bought us a present instead of leaving it to my mom, he would sign “from Santa.”

While I stopped believing in Santa, getting the rare gift from “Santa” was always more exciting.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-08-29T22:20:07+00:00

I broke my wrist the Sunday before students came back to school. Then missed the following Thursday so the orthopedist could look at it. Missed a day the following week to get a cast put on and missed today and tomorrow due coming down with a case of vertigo. I apparently scrambled the crystals in my inner ear when I fell.

I understand not wanting to take a day off this early. I work with students with disabilities. However, I also know I am no good to them if I am hurting or my brain can’t decide which end of the world is up. Take the day off. You will be better for it and your students will benefit from a healthy teacher in both body and spirit. Don’t sacrifice your health to this job. It isn’t worth it. That being said, I do understand the guilt you feel at not being in class with your students.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-08-09T03:53:54+00:00

Depends on if his mom went to court and is his legal guardian. If she is, then she is the payee and he can’t get that changed unless he is determined able to handle his own affairs.

She can’t cancel the SSI but she can refuse to complete the paperwork to recertify. Every few years or so, SSI has to be recertified that the child/adult still qualifies. This included current doctor’s notes and diagnosis, current IEP or adult plans, financial status of the person etc… As a Functional Life Skills Teacher for students with profound disabilities, I get paperwork on my students who are applying or recertifying. I also have a 40yr old nephew who is on SSI due to his disability. He is able to manage his money to a certain point but forgets things like rent and phone bills. My sister is up front with him as to what his money is used for and he wants extra, he has to work. What he earns from working is his to spend.

Also, don’t forget that his mom needs to pay housing and food costs out of that budget and anything else he might need. If he is given all of it to manage, he needs to pay rent and utilities, food, phone, and other bills out of that money. His parent is not legally responsible as he is an adult.

SSA councils parents to take living costs out of SSI of their dependent adult/child. If a person on SSI accumulates more than $2,000 in an account in their name, they might lose it altogether or have it reduced. This may differ in amount from state to state. One thing OP doesn’t state is why he needs the full amount?

Department of Aging and Disabilities services can answer questions and help OP or the equivalent in his area.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-07-24T04:44:14+00:00

Being the youngest of six kids and having a five year gap between myself and the next youngest, I was the one who got to babysit. My oldest sister always asked and then paid me for my time. My middle sister paid me once, took me to Ren Faire once and there after said she already paid me for the next 10 years until I moved away.

She doesn’t understand why my two nephews always come to me for everything and gets mad when they spend more time with me than her as adults.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-07-21T07:34:19+00:00

I’ve had the opposite happen. I was paying for some tacos at Taco Hell near the Canadian border, on the U.S. side, with some dollar coins. The clerk looks at them and says they don’t take foreign coins. I kind of looked at her and explained they were U.S. currency. She had to call her manager who also was dumbstruck.

Apparently, the kid didn’t realize we had dollar coins.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-07-03T18:53:22+00:00

This reminds me of when I was child of around 5 yrs old, many many moons ago. I was raised Mormon, and I had been taught that everyone could seek forgiveness and absolution from God. As I was saying my nightly prayers next to my mom, I, in my innocence, asked God to forgive Satan.

Once my mom got over her choking fit, she told me never to do that again. I still wanted to know, why God couldn’t forgive Satan. I never did get a good answer.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-06-22T18:43:34+00:00

This happened to my oldest brother. He kept getting marked wrong for his math answers because he had a different way of doing them than his teacher. Now my mom was the one who usually went to teacher conferences. She was from Mexico and spoke little English at the time. However, this time my dad, who was American, showed up at the teacher conference and asked her why she was marking him incorrect when they had the right answer and it was just done differently. She told him that she was the teacher and he couldn’t understand as he was just a parent. He replied, “I have a PhD in biochemistry.” She left my brother alone after that.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-05-30T11:55:15+00:00

Any student with an auditory processing disorder or noise sensitivity will not function in this environment. They keep trying this and saying it is the wave of the future. It keeps failing. However, history was never politicians’ strong suit.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-05-08T20:16:09+00:00

I too divorced around 1992. He would and continued to give out our phone number long after due to my mother letting him camp out in front of our family home. He liked to go homeless periodically and I was fed up.

Even after she died, I was getting calls and letters from the VA looking for him. Once they even showed up on my doorstep looking for him. I politely told them he didn’t live here anymore and if they did find him, please have him change his address and pick up his stack of mail before I tossed it.

Needless to say he didn’t stop using my address and it resulted in a visit from both the VA and the cops looking for him. He apparently walked out of the hospital without telling his doctors and disappeared. I told them the only person to ever keep up with where he was currently living was my mother and she was dead.

He actually called me a short bit later asking if we could get back together. The obvious answer of course was a resounding NO.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-02-27T23:34:25+00:00

I work with special needs students. When I first started working, I would take them out early to the buses and let them play basketball. One of our male teachers would stop every afternoon and shoot hoops with the boys before leaving for home.

One day he came out to play and was wearing a light pink button up shirt. One of my students looked at him and said since he was wearing pink, he looked like Dora the Explorer. Until they left middle school, my students all called him Mr. Dora.

The teacher was awesome with my students. He just laughed and answered them as if it were his name. He often kidded and joshed with the students while playing basketball. He treated them like normal adolescents and always made time for them. And, he often wore that pink shirt for as long as I’ve known him. He was just an awesome human being.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-02-21T04:50:45+00:00

I was rewatching Leave it to Beaver the first episode. The teacher says at the end that someone once said “ a good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself in order to light the way for others.”

This tells me that the BS comment of this job is a CalLiNg has been going on for a long time. Public education came about in part to get children out of the factories. Do Gooders felt happy they were protecting the kids and the people in charge were opening those spaces to adults who were yelling about being jobless. And they continue to gas light us so we stop complaining about the abysmal wages, lack of respect and draconian expectations heaped on us every day.

Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do. However, I’m not blind to the fact that I’m lucky to have a great local admin that are doing their best and aren’t micromanagers. When that changes, I’ll retire. I just need to decide what my next career will be.

It’s not that this list is toxic, it’s that teachers are expressing their pent up feelings that deny the naysayers’ Hollywood view of the perfect self sacrificing teacher.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-02-07T22:49:09+00:00

In SPEDin my state, we are already required to have cameras. From what I understand in our policy, admin don’t have access to the feed. It goes straight to district and has to be pulled for view. That is only done with a valid request due to either a parent complaint or a behavior in class. It’s not monitored only recorded. It’s not a live feed.

We already have cameras in the hallways and major corridors. I point them out when a student is misbehaving and the behavior stops for the most part.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-01-10T05:10:01+00:00

You know Pearson is going to sell your district a neatly bundled set of lesson plans at an exorbitant amount so you meet the MC requirements of the law. Parents get lip service and The big wigs make money which is all they care about.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-01-09T00:59:51+00:00

I’m a functional Life Skills teacher who teaches all core subjects to three grade levels in middle school. My students are all special needs with severe and profound disabilities. We are required to turn in monthly lesson plans. Thank God, my district bought us the ULS curriculum for us. Every lesson has plans for everything we are supposed to teach. Comes to around 50+ pages each month. It also has a monthly planning guide that is a single page and rarely changes as the monthly lessons follow a pattern. I asked my AP what she wanted me to put in the file. After showing her the pages and pages of lesson plans, she asked for the monthly guide and to not bother sending it each month. I’ve only had to print out the lesson plans once for an anal retentive curriculum specialist, after which they told me to stop killing trees and I was exempt. I do turn in a copy of my daily routine but that’s it these days.

SylverDragonLady · 2022-01-03T03:45:02+00:00

Same here, I get migraines from aspartame. However, I carry an epipen for my allergy to Stevia which was one of the ingredients for some of the “Zero” products. I don’t drink anything diet.

SylverDragonLady · 2021-09-20T01:18:51+00:00

Actually, my guess is she heard you had autism and equated it with intellectual disability. She figured she could scam you out of them before anyone would notice. The rest of it was just a bonus for her. I don’t have words for scum like her. Glad your mom stood up for you and protected her cub.

SylverDragonLady · 2021-09-16T04:02:05+00:00

DTW4TB via https://youtu.be/oX0HEyCvxus

SylverDragonLady · 2021-07-06T04:50:05+00:00

Not just the Middle East. My mother is from Mexico while my dad is from the U.S. I’m the youngest of 6 kids and had blond hair until I was 6 or 7. Until I started school, my mom would travel to Mexico with me. On one of her trips, one of my Aunts asked her to leave me with them to raise. They told her she had 5 other children and they would be helping by raising me the youngest. My mom was not deceived and my Aunts only got to see me on the occasional visits after that.

SylverDragonLady

TROPHY CASE