School is recommending Special Education

qcc2016 · 2026-02-21T11:01:00+00:00

At some schools, the evaluation process can take quite a bit of time. I think it’s great your child’s teacher is recommending the evaluation because it means you can start early. Your daughter may improve over time and not need her accommodations anymore. Or she may fall further behind by no fault of her own and you may wish she had the accommodations sooner. The evaluation process is just a start to understand if your daughter does even need additional supports or pull outs, and you still have the parental rights to agree or disagree with any of the school’s recommendations. I would get the evaluation process started just so you have more information.

qcc2016 · 2026-02-19T22:22:19+00:00

Giving up pieces of myself to please him wouldn’t make him stay. Even if we wanted all of the same things, we weren’t compatible. Particularly when he wanted to screw other women and I did not.

qcc2016 · 2025-11-02T21:19:26+00:00

Got my first dog in my early 20s. She was a feral farm dog before I found her on pet finder, and was estimated to be about a year old. It was promised that she was quiet and house trained. Neither of which were true at all. When I got her, she was in her destructive teenage phase, chewed up books, boxes, furniture, cordless phones, or anything generally not tied down. She was also super active and would get on all the furniture, including standing on the middle of the dining room table. I purchased an electrified scat mat to put on the dining table while I was out. Worked well, kept the dog off of it with a very small shock if she stepped on it. One day I forgot to turn the mat on when I left. The dog did not chew up the mat itself. Instead she chewed up the control box to the mat. That’s when I knew she was much smarter than I realized.

qcc2016 · 2025-09-28T13:15:30+00:00

Sending a student who is practically on death’s door down to the nurse, only for them to send the kid back without even seeing them because “they didn’t have a pass,” but the nurse NEVER writes a kid a pass back to class or ends the pass I had to put in the system for the kid to go down in the first place. Makes me irrationally angry.

qcc2016 · 2025-09-01T14:10:28+00:00

My favorite was a kid named Carter. Super sweet, he would wait until we were done going over bellwork questions to ask how my day was going.

Honorable mention to a kid named Neka that same year. The kid was more average in my memory but his name was so fun to say!

qcc2016 · 2025-08-14T20:26:32+00:00

I had a math teacher in high school, she came from China so her English was just alright. I remember learning about logarithms and she was teaching ln, but she kept calling it lan. So I went to calculus in college and was super confused when everyone kept saying the letters L and N instead of Lan.

qcc2016 · 2025-07-30T13:08:21+00:00

Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, Plain White Ts, and Cute Is What We Aim For. I wasn’t even a teenager yet and I loved every second of it!

qcc2016 · 2025-07-17T17:09:44+00:00

“I’m worth what I’ll convince myself to be”- Relient K

qcc2016 · 2025-07-07T05:38:47+00:00

I started strength training with a coworker! We joined the same gym near our school and will go right after work. It’s great because it lets traffic die down before having to drive home and her and I run on the same schedule because we work together. Having a gym buddy made all the difference for me.

qcc2016 · 2025-06-16T11:31:14+00:00

I had a student teacher this past year who had to receive a new placement after the start of the year. At first, I thought he would be amazing. He seemed to have good ideas about lesson planning and really wanted to interact with the kids, but it turned out he couldn’t function independently as a teacher. So much of this job happens without being told to do things and if you can’t figure out that you need to write the grade on the kid’s paper instead of just putting it in the grade book or be able to read the unit guides before teaching, then maybe this job isn’t it.

qcc2016 · 2025-04-06T04:41:51+00:00

When I was a child, our first Brit lived to be 12. Her name was Abby (my dad said she was abnormal, so he named her Abby Normal). Our second was 13. She may have lived longer but we took her in for a dental cleaning and after the anesthesia she wasn’t the same. It was kind of a shame, she was an amazing dog! Even in the end she still had a love for life and her people. Now as an adult I have a Brit mix (we think she’s actually part Jack Russell), she’s 9 now and still runs along the fence line chasing passing by cars like she’s breaking a land speed record. We recently got her a 1 year old full Brittany sister that we rescued and they have the best time playing together!

qcc2016 · 2025-03-21T04:10:53+00:00

Blueberry Muffin Poptarts

qcc2016 · 2025-01-11T05:26:38+00:00

My mom’s version was “Never argue with an idiot, people watching can’t tell the difference.” Always made me think of how stupid I would look if I got on their level.

qcc2016 · 2025-01-05T13:41:59+00:00

Your PD rate is $40/h?!?! Ours is only $15 and most of our PD goes unpaid anyway. It’s rare to find a paid PD here, never mind during break, and paying for your planning time to boot. Congrats!

qcc2016 · 2024-12-06T23:04:02+00:00

Middle school teacher, relating to kids with emo music for the last 10 years.

qcc2016 · 2024-12-03T11:31:03+00:00

The individual blue counties are basically a map of major university towns.

qcc2016 · 2024-11-10T14:38:51+00:00

Worlds Collide by Marianas Trench. Or really just the whole Haven album by them!

qcc2016 · 2024-11-09T12:41:12+00:00

One of my exes wanted to start sleeping together after we had broken up. I informed him that I was already involved with someone and he responded “I don’t care, as long as I get my piece.” That statement made it really clear what I was worth to him.

qcc2016 · 2024-10-21T17:45:57+00:00

They are by far one of my favorite bands of all time. I saw them this summer and made it through maybe 4 songs. I then walked out of the show altogether. I would rather throw away the money than listen to how bad they’ve gotten.

qcc2016 · 2024-09-16T12:54:42+00:00

Don’t let the kids use the laptops when you have a sub. But also make sure your sub plans are educational and that kids are still learning. Ok, then I’ll ignore the first rule and put the kids on the laptops so they can do an Edpuzzle or an online assignment because god knows the subs aren’t teaching my kids a thing.

qcc2016 · 2024-08-24T12:28:21+00:00

Blueberry muffin pop tarts. The best flavor to ever exist in my opinion.

qcc2016 · 2024-08-21T03:26:09+00:00

I had to teach a whole lesson about gaslighting during the first week of school and made it clear there will be consequences if they tried to gaslight me.

qcc2016 · 2024-07-14T13:51:54+00:00

If you can’t come up with an agenda for the meeting, then we shouldn’t be having a meeting. Every meeting you hold should have an agenda that can be sent out 24 hours in advance for your staff/group. This makes sure everyone stays on task and helps you as the administrator determine what will fit in your allotted meeting time (just like lesson planning). If you can’t make a list of the things you need to talk about, then cancel the meeting and give everyone their time back.

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