20 Jun 2010
Just another Sunday
Just a compilation of things while I am busy writing a real post …
- Damn, not a single Father’s Day card. No one cares … 😉
- Several people have brought this article to my attention, turns out I read it yesterday, but thanks to all for mentioning it. Everyone else should read it, “A Struggle to Educate the Severely Disabled” in the New York Times. Go ahead, read it. The comments on it are longer than the article itself!
- Now that you read that article, notice (FINALLY) the new Poll of The Day on the right. Please vote!
- Because I am a geek, I can see how people find this blog. I am fascinated by the search terms used (i.e.: the words one enters into Google or Bing, etc.). All too often there is “dad and daughter” and that person takes a five second look at the blog and leaves … sorry, there may be what some consider porn here, but not what those pigs are looking for. I took a look today to see if there were any Father’s Day related searches, my favorite (and, at the same time, least favorite) is a bit more than halfway down the list.
“fathers day cards for people who ate their dad”???
“Happy Father’s Day … Love, Hannibal”?
Whew. That article has thrown me for a loop. I don’t know if I’ll ever get untangled. I would say thank you, but I’m not feeling thankful.
The one about the people who ate their Dad? Priceless.
I’m pretty into “Mr. poll I gotta pee” myself. I might google that myself to see what else pops up. Yesterday’s such an annoying day, every year. I almost always forget and then feel like a bad daughter, despite not failing in other ways on other days.
I hope this week is better. I hope Pearlsky’s feeling better this week than last.
Saw it early this morning. Don’t have time to read all the comments but did read the first 15. Wow, people in NY are articulate.
Like Elizabeth’s word ‘tangle’ for trying to comment myself.
I stayed brief in my tweet about it – I’ve seen many classroom situations similar to the one described.
Also just responded to another tweet that I agree all children have the right to education. How to educate a particularly unhomogenous and small group – and our traditional education system is ‘group oriented’ – is the question. The I in IDEA and IEP is near antithetical to rest of education, and yet a great deal of effort goes into trying to mimic not-special-education.
That’s enough for now.