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[dday101798]

ahhh, this is going to be a FUN school year, thanks for the reminder mish!

[Reincarnated]

If he doesn't have it written down, that teacher should walk him back to those classes to write them down! Betcha it happens once, and he'll start to do it on his own (I'm guessing that there is an aide or something in the social skills class along with his teacher, no?)

Is it Marc CHOOSING not to write the assignments, or is it part of his disability? Another idea is that class teachers have to provide his assignments written on sticky notes for him to put into his agenda each day...or he can go to all of his classes and just fill in his agenda before school starts each morning.

Just thinking out loud...

[mishka422]

Good thinking! Keep it up, it's helping. I'm making a list of suggestions to make about this with his couselor.

There is a parapro in his social skills class. I'll bring that up to his ss teacher and see what she thinks of that.

As far as him not writing the assignments I don't know if he is CHOOSING or just not making it a priority so it gets to the end of class and he has no time to do it.

It really amazes me that he makes between his classes in the 5 minutes he has as it is. There are over 3,000 students, the school is HUGE and his locker is nowhere near any of his classes. It's down a hall that he never has any reason to go down. The school is set up like a big hub and spoke system with a perimeter hallway, crossovers in the middle through a courtyard and a massive rotunda in the middle. There are outlying portions (auditorium, gym, cafeteria) and trailer classrooms as well. They outgrew the school the year after it was built. I was there last night and with just parents there (and you know not even half of the parents for all 4 grades came) it was nearly impossible to get through the throngs of people to get to the next room. CRAZY!

[mishka422]

OK.....Huge funny to me here......

I got a call at my office today on the main line and I answered in my usual 'business voice' to hear this..."Hey. Good afternoon! It's just me, no one exciting." Uh huh....I'm racking my brain trying to figure out who it is while giving pleasant, 'happy to hear from you again' responses until I figure it out. OMG! Two words later I hear, "I'm picking up Marc this afternoon to take him for a haircut since I have to work Saturday."


HOLY CRAP! It was Gabe and I didn't even recognize his voice! HOW HILARIOUS!!!!

[BobbiJo]

That, my dear, is what they call detachment....good for you!

[dday101798]

lol, agreed, full on detachment.

[JCJ]

Mishka, that is so funny imagine if you'd said 'I'm sorry, who are you?'

[AliSuddenly]

Wow Mish, thats certainly a change !! I know I missed quite a few posts here.. so I just wanted to say how amazed and glad I am that you managed to get into C now.. I know it was tricky for you time wise and money etc so its brilliant you have managed to sort that out for yourself and its not an indulgence! Its a head doctor right, like going to a regular doc for other parts of your body, except, probably of more use !(I think GPs are useless). So funny you didnt spot his voice, amazing, do you think he picked up on that? Did he ask you how you were?

Al xxx

[MichelleLT]

ROTFLMAO

[mishka422]

I finished my A-Z list for the C for tomorrow. It was supposed to be an "I like myself because I am (or will be)"....A-Z descriptive words. Honestly, the majority of what I came up with I don't really believe about myself but I couldn't just leave them all blank. It was far too easy to come up with negative words for each letter, but positive ones were nearly impossible. I know that's "stinkin' thinkin'" but it's the path my mind is always on. That sucks! Writing that list just felt like a total lie. I loathe lying (gee, what a shock huh? ) so instead of making me feel any better about myself it just made me feel worse. Is that what's supposed to happen?

I don't know if I'm going to continue C. Not because of this exercise only, but because I just can't afford it. Just these last few weeks has completely destroyed my budget. It has added to my stress level a lot. Isn't that the antithesis of what I should be gaining from therapy?

Crazed at work. I did manage to take this coming Friday off. I asked for the weekend off from the supermarket too, but being a holiday weekend I probably won't get it. Couldn't hurt to try though.