Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

Tiggerish

Tiggerish

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JenniferS said:
I sang it as “Bi*#h” by Meredith Brooks. (Came out in early 1997.) Did I goof
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Thank you, now that's stuck in my head.

1997 was the year that I helped found the company I still.work.for (albeit now for the son, instead.of the dad). February, to be exact. Would Meredith have been On the Radio (any one else.old.enough to now have Donna Summer in their head??) as early as February? 😁
 
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Tiggerish said:
Thank you, now that's stuck in my head.

1997 was the year that I helped found the company I still.work.for (albeit now for the son, instead.of the dad). February, to be exact. Would Meredith have been On the Radio (any one else.old.enough to now have Donna Summer in their head??) as early as February? 😁
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I freaking love your kindles sense of punctuation 😂😂😂
 
Songbird76

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PUSH said:
The first hour or two went really well, actually. I was surprised. But then one kid decided that was enough for him and didn't want to do anything. And another kid decided he didn't have to follow the expectations we just talked about and had a couple hours of whining and crying about everything, and it was everybody else's fault. And one is new to our school and is undergoing an IEP eval already... much needed.
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scotch drinking GIF


Honestly, other than the not following expectations, the crying kid sounds like my son. He has always been a rule follower, so that was never an issue with him. But when he felt something was unfair, or when he didn't understand what was expected of him, he'd cry. I warned his new teacher every year, and every year they told me it would be fine, not to worry, they could handle it. And every year, after about a month, the teacher would talk to me about how he cried a lot. I kept asking for help and no one would believe there was an issue because he was doing so well with the school work. He could read before they start learning to read, he could do sums in the thousands when he was five. There CAN'T be anything going on with him, because he wouldn't be doing so well if there were.....he just needs to learn not to react to bullying, etc. And then he was 9 and he was diagnosed with autism, and I kept thinking....you couldn't have listened to me YEARS ago when I ASKED? He could have been diagnosed back then and gotten help. -I- could have gotten help. Now I see a kid who cries easily and think "Oh those poor people....that's not a fun way to live."

Does this kid have an IEP as well?
 
Songbird76

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PUSH said:
I stopped by the eye doctor after work today to look for some glasses. As I was looking, a man came in and said, "Well, look who's here! What do you have a blind eye or something?" He was talking to me. I turned and looked at him. I have absolutely no idea who he was. He didn't acknowledge me at all after that, so I think he realized I wasn't the person he thought I was. It was quite awkward.
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Sounds like a commercial for a store for eyeglasses!! They have those here...there's someone who goes into her new job as an aerobics instructor and does an intense workout and walks out and the senior citizens in wheelchairs all just look confused, waiting for bingo to start. Meanwhile there's a group of people in athletic wear waiting on their instructor. And then it says it's time to refresh the prescription!

Or one where there's a guy oblivious to the woman making eyes at him at work. Then he gets new glasses and notices the woman, and that she has spinach all over in her teeth, etc. And it says something about now being able to see EVERYTHING.
 
PUSH

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Songbird76 said:
scotch drinking GIF


Honestly, other than the not following expectations, the crying kid sounds like my son. He has always been a rule follower, so that was never an issue with him. But when he felt something was unfair, or when he didn't understand what was expected of him, he'd cry. I warned his new teacher every year, and every year they told me it would be fine, not to worry, they could handle it. And every year, after about a month, the teacher would talk to me about how he cried a lot. I kept asking for help and no one would believe there was an issue because he was doing so well with the school work. He could read before they start learning to read, he could do sums in the thousands when he was five. There CAN'T be anything going on with him, because he wouldn't be doing so well if there were.....he just needs to learn not to react to bullying, etc. And then he was 9 and he was diagnosed with autism, and I kept thinking....you couldn't have listened to me YEARS ago when I ASKED? He could have been diagnosed back then and gotten help. -I- could have gotten help. Now I see a kid who cries easily and think "Oh those poor people....that's not a fun way to live."

Does this kid have an IEP as well?
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No IEP. I have quite a bit of knowledge of this family, as I had both of his older brothers. It's all parenting with this family (or lack thereof). They learn at home that they can cry and whine to get what they want. All three boys have been the same in that aspect.

Yesterday I had two separate people say to me, "Did you do something to p*ss admin off??" when we were talking about all the needs and behaviors I have in my class. It's so much, but I get awarded all of this because I "can handle it". Or I get the "this kid would do better with a male teacher". 99% of the time that isn't true, but it's an easy justification. It gets tiring after multiple years of difficult classes in a row. I'm not going to lie, four days into the year and I'm already feeling burnt out.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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PUSH said:
No IEP. I have quite a bit of knowledge of this family, as I had both of his older brothers. It's all parenting with this family (or lack thereof). They learn at home that they can cry and whine to get what they want. All three boys have been the same in that aspect.

Yesterday I had two separate people say to me, "Did you do something to p*ss admin off??" when we were talking about all the needs and behaviors I have in my class. It's so much, but I get awarded all of this because I "can handle it". Or I get the "this kid would do better with a male teacher". 99% of the time that isn't true, but it's an easy justification. It gets tiring after multiple years of difficult classes in a row. I'm not going to lie, four days into the year and I'm already feeling burnt out.
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Are you the newest teacher there? I swear when I was in school they gave the kids the experienced teachers didn't want to the newbie. My sixth grade year, I had a teacher who was fresh out of college and they put a kid in my class who was known as "the problem kid". It's sad...it's not that he was a bad kid, but his dad was abusive and an alcoholic, his mom had tried to provide for the family after dad drank the money away by dealing drugs and got caught and had to go to jail, leaving the kid with said abusive alcoholic father. It's no wonder the kid acted up in school. And kids were horrible to him because he was not clean and tried to get attention in the wrong ways, so he was often getting bullied and of course kids are good at doing it when the teacher's back is turned and only see the "problem kid" reacting, so then HE gets in trouble when it was really some other kid picking on him. Anyway, first day of school, this newbie teacher says "I heard about you! I have a special seat for you!" and she directed him to a desk all the way across the room, facing the wall. So then he got mad and threw a chair across the room, and that was how my first day of 6th grade started. They should never have put him in her class...she had no experience and didn't know how to deal with classroom management, much less a kid with such a horrible homelife who needed extra support.
 
PUSH

PUSH

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Songbird76 said:
Are you the newest teacher there? I swear when I was in school they gave the kids the experienced teachers didn't want to the newbie. My sixth grade year, I had a teacher who was fresh out of college and they put a kid in my class who was known as "the problem kid". It's sad...it's not that he was a bad kid, but his dad was abusive and an alcoholic, his mom had tried to provide for the family after dad drank the money away by dealing drugs and got caught and had to go to jail, leaving the kid with said abusive alcoholic father. It's no wonder the kid acted up in school. And kids were horrible to him because he was not clean and tried to get attention in the wrong ways, so he was often getting bullied and of course kids are good at doing it when the teacher's back is turned and only see the "problem kid" reacting, so then HE gets in trouble when it was really some other kid picking on him. Anyway, first day of school, this newbie teacher says "I heard about you! I have a special seat for you!" and she directed him to a desk all the way across the room, facing the wall. So then he got mad and threw a chair across the room, and that was how my first day of 6th grade started. They should never have put him in her class...she had no experience and didn't know how to deal with classroom management, much less a kid with such a horrible homelife who needed extra support.
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