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The IEP Meeting

Monday, March 22, 2010

Well, it’s done for now.  It was very tense and 2.5 hours long and we still didn’t cover everything.  But we did get Rye a shortened day.  And he will no longer have Social Science or Science classes for the rest of the year.  We’ll just focus on reading, writing, and math.  I’m happy with [...]

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Understanding

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Things happen for a reason.  I believe this to be true.
We had a very strange day over here.  It started with Rye being off the charts and me just about wanting to send him to the hospital and then it ended in almost a completely different direction.
We drove by the school this evening on our [...]

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The World Is A Classroom

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

I was watching “19 Kids and Counting” tonight and Michelle Duggar said this about her kids and homeschooling, the world is a classroom.   I thought it was great.   Because it’s so true.  And I wonder, is “out-of-school schooling” better for some kids that “in-school schooling”?  Could be.  And I may have one of those kids.
Now, [...]

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Sunday Review

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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D’jew find jew anything, Mae?
Yea,  sissy, I found me a really nice Bible.  Who’d’ve thought?  Right here in this store.
And it’s beautiful.

This was the conversation I overheard in the Goodwill store yesterday.  Don and I were in a town south of us that I would definitely consider to be the deep South.  It looks [...]

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The Calm

Friday, March 12, 2010

When underwater, the world above is muffled.  The sounds are hardly detectable.  The sight is blurred.  And the weight of the water pushes on the body like a gentle, loving embrace.
Rye is out of school now until the school can come with a better plan for him.  Being a victim to physical assault and gross [...]

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Teachers Behaving Badly

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Well, I’ll tell you, it seems like it’s always something.
Rye was physically assaulted by a teacher this week at the zoo of a school he goes to simply for saying no to said teacher.   We have tried to communicate nicely with the school, give the teacher the benefit of the doubt, and were hoping for [...]

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…’should’ continued…

Thursday, February 18, 2010

so, as to the don’t ’should’ story…
What Red meant in this statement is that it is not good for one to look at the world through a lens of ’shoulds’ because you ruin what is by comparing it to what you feel, for whatever reason, should be.
In other words,  by ’shouding’ all over everything,  not [...]

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The Alternative School

Friday, February 12, 2010

Well, I’d say overall it’s been a medium to good day (medium as in mediocre, not channeling the dead) over here.
It started out with Rye having a complete meltdown before school.  He was overtired and I’m sure the excitement and anticipation of the dance was weighing on him as well.   Anyway, he fell apart over [...]

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Where The Wild Things Are

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Apparently they are in the boy’s bathroom at Rye’s school.
Where there are no cameras.
Yesterday a bad fight broke out while Rye was in the bathroom at school.  In one of his crowning moments, not only did he not participate in the fight but he also ran out and told a teacher what was happening to [...]

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IEP Meeting & Clampdown

Thursday, January 21, 2010

So, in a strange turn of events I went to the IEP meeting yesterday and the teachers and administrator there apologized for Rye getting out of school suspension.  His case manager asked me to please not think that is how things will go at this school and to not let it discolor my view of [...]

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Smokin A Pall Mall, Drinkin A Colt 45

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I am happy to announce that Rye is back in school today.   He did not finish all of the school work sent home for his 3 day hiatus however considering the English teacher alone assigned him 57 pages of grammar work to complete in a grammar book she did not even send home with him [...]

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