School Archive
06 Jun 2011
Blood is thicker than water
Advocating for my kids is not something I set out to do. Hell, I’d love to have kids where such actions are not necessary, believe me. Yeah, some advocating is always needed, but you know what I mean. Some people are easy to go up against. They are naturally pukes and putting them in their
02 Jun 2011
Seize her
I am really trying to get more information as to what happened at David’s residential facility the other day. I know he had a significant seizure while in the school and I know that an aide or two literally ran with him in his wheelchair back to the residence, from the school. Yesterday I learned
19 May 2011
“If you’re trying to kill us, at least let me put on some lip gloss.” ~Fran in the movie “Rollercoaster”
A day in the life. Today. I do a lot for people and have found that few return the favor. That is fine, just a fact. Let’s face it, how many people would really be there for you? Although this was light-weight, it was really nice. As it so happens, when a goddess could use
17 May 2011
A couple of updates
I have been swamped with a very exciting new business thing I’m working on (a geek web site to create a geek web community) and have been juggling lots of stuff. But here is an update, and a promise to be blogging more. Remember the teacher who said in the Progress Report all those bad
12 May 2011
Venus in Furs …
I was so ready to put up this post I have been working on, about “disability masochist,” about whether or not I am defined by Pearlsky, this whole intellectual and articulate dissertation on how we are perceived because of our kids and how we perceive ourselves, now and even after we pass, the words were
01 May 2011
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~George Bernard Shaw
We need to get past this horrendous progress report. I did some research and learned some more about the report itself. Knowing the teacher was in deep-do-do on many fronts, I decided to be a slim modicum of nice. I sent this to him and his supervisor. I am trying to understand the progress report
27 Apr 2011
The three stages: pissed off, flabbergasted, laughing
Very short recap … I got Pearlsky’s progress report. It is a report on how she is doing relative to her IEP goals over the last several months. It had things in there that the school has known for over a year that they are no longer allowed to do. I wrote an email to
25 Apr 2011
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” ~Albert Einstein
I found the comments on the last post very interesting. I have to agree with Erin; the months after David was born and I needed to come to grips with the realization that not only was he, too, severely disabled, but that I would most likely never have a normal child, were a very difficult