::Leader Board:: Ahnko Honu Takes The Lead Chapter 20!

Ukulelerob said:

Where's the Padre?

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Freeda said:

I hear ya. My kids at school have really been struggling this week. It takes it out of ya!

We work one on one during instructional time. One kid can't deal with being corrected, which is difficult since he has a pretty significant cognitive impairment. (7th grade and we are still learning to write times like "twelve o'clock is 12:00" and doing 2 digit subtraction and addition.

Today I tried a new strategy. I wrote out the problem on my white board, and then he did the problem in his workbook. Then I did the problem out loud on my whiteboard and he "checked my work". If our answers didn't match we would try again. I made mistakes here and there so he could correct me.

It worked pretty darn well. Which is almost a guarantee it won't work tomorrow.

I really enjoy this school. It is for emotionally impaired kids and our classes are small - the one I'm in now has 7 kids - and we have 4 adults plus some that roam around to help out. There are quiet rooms, and even a couple of seclusion rooms (magnet lock doors for if they are violent). We have about a million level one lockdowns per day, which means someone is having a fit out in the hall.

Grading isn't based on academics, really. Like no one will grade the worksheet pages we do every day. They just do periodic assessments. Their daily scores are based on their behavior management for each section of the day. Good behavior earns points, poor behavior earns fines, and they get to spend their points at the school store. Enough plus days equal a plus week. Enough plus weeks in a set period and you can advance a "level". Level one is low and level four means you have your stuff together most of the time. you have to be on level four to even discuss transitioning back to public school.

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Debby said:

I've about had it with my daughter's school, to be honest. They need to do more for the kids that struggle...instead of bragging about how good of a school it is. Tempted to pull my kid out and send her to another school.

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salukulady said:

I wanna go to the field.....


Hey, anyone wanna buy a ticket to TBUG? I'm tossing mine back. $142 includes t-shirt and if you're a girl you can have my bed spot too.

Just thought I'd let you all have a crack at it before I sell it back to TBUS.

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UkeMania said:

Well, it's good news that you have an interview after the phone call. They are definitely interested!

What time is the interview? Since you are somewhere over the rainbow, I don't know your time zone , but I will be praying!

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salukulady said:

I was. I wanted to see Aldrine, Sukie, JT, and others but I'm starting to feel guilty. I spent a crapton on travel this year; Indiana, Washington, the cruise, and numerous weekends away with Mike. Airplane tickets are like $600....I've been shopping for months and they're just not coming down.

Last year there was weird for me. I was terribly sick. I wanted to go again but.....it just doesn't feel right. My gut instinct is always right. So, I'm passing on this very coveted ticket to someone whose heart is in it.

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Scarecrow said:

I have another interview tomorrow. I'm super excited.

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Mim said:

NO SALLY! NO! NO NO NO NO!

No... no... no!

Sally... NOOOOOO!
No!!!

Sally! NO!

Just...

NO!

You cant not go!
Remember JTs?
Remember the fun?

Don't not go...

Go!

Sally... no! You HAVE to!

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Scarecrow said:

My thoughts exactly.

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Mim said:

Go Scarecrow go!!!

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Scarecrow said:

I want one of those green concert aqualeles.

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salukulady said:

I was. I wanted to see Aldrine, Sukie, JT, and others but I'm starting to feel guilty. I spent a crapton on travel this year; Indiana, Washington, the cruise, and numerous weekends away with Mike. Airplane tickets are like $600....I've been shopping for months and they're just not coming down.

Last year there was weird for me. I was terribly sick. I wanted to go again but.....it just doesn't feel right. My gut instinct is always right. So, I'm passing on this very coveted ticket to someone whose heart is in it.

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Scarecrow said:

I have another interview tomorrow. I'm super excited.

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Mim said:

There is always Scarecrow prices

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