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sad-cafe wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 6:52 pm I am getting out of special education specifically the PBS program

I can't do the hourly meltdowns and anger and fits with no admin support

I am going to finish my career in regular education teaching middle school social studies.


I am very happy about it .

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 7:58 pm PBS stands for Positive Behavior Support

it is for the emotionally disturbed kids in self-contained.

The hitters, biters, screamers, fit throwers, pants shitters, furniture throwers, wall climbers and a whole host of issues.

My principal asked me to do this position because I make great connections with kids. I tried it for a year, then the pandemic and then district moved that admin.

This year has SSSUUUCCCKKKEEED and I can't do it anymore

I have 4 years left and I just want to teach in peace and do my thing!

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 8:31 pm Thank you.


I have cried a LOT and been on edge for the last 36 months.

It is tooo much and my heart hurts from it.

LM K wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 8:57 pm

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 8:31 pm Thank you.


I have cried a LOT and been on edge for the last 36 months.

It is tooo much and my heart hurts from it.

You can't live like that. You shouldn't have to live like that. I absolutely could not work with those kiddos.

I planned to become a clinical psychologist. At the end of that internship, I decided to go into research instead. I'd be a very good clinician. But the job would rip me up.

As sad and heartbreaking as it was to work with those kiddos, I'm tremendously grateful that I did. I learned a lot about myself. Unfortunately I also learned a lot about just how horrific parents can be to their children.

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 10:30 pm
OMG yes. I understand how every single student of mine has their issues.

I have made more DCF reports the last two years than I ever did the first 20 years

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 4:49 pm some of them are horribly disgusting!

one had his older brother and his friend pour milk on his junk and held him down while dogs licked it off

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 6:07 pm oh yes

there is more than that but that is the least offensive!

Many reports on this child's living situation

Volkonski wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 11:45 pm Our daughter signed her contract with her new school district today.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:55 pm Our daughter the 2nd grade teacher sent us that Atlanta schools link. She says she expects the same thing to happen in Wichita County schools once they open.

She is very concerned.

When School Was the Coolest Place to Spend the Summer
The time thousands of Mississippi students chose to spend their summer learning.

During one long, hot summer, thousands of Mississippians engaged in a radical educational experiment. They were students in Freedom School, an alternative academic experience sponsored by the Council of Federated Organizations, or COFO. In summer 1964, COFO, an umbrella group for several civil rights organizations, brought more than 700 student volunteers from colleges across the country to help Mississippi’s Black residents register to vote. That project came to be known as Freedom Summer, with Freedom Schools as an essential element.

A typical day at a Freedom School started at 9 a.m. with singing and a briefing on current events, followed by citizenship class and then a choice of art, auto mechanics, dance, drama, games, guitar or sports. Afternoon sessions offered subjects such as French, comparative religion and playwriting. Students met in churches, homes and outside under the glaring sun; they ranged in ages from four to 25. All of them were Black.

At a time when education was still segregated in Mississippi, Freedom School was a threatening prospect—and as such, it was met with violence. Despite the danger, students came, and in numbers far beyond what COFO had expected. Where organizers had planned on 20 schools and 1,000 students, the network ultimately grew to 41 schools serving more than 2,000 students.

Through lessons in African-American history and Mississippi politics, Freedom School teachers sought to link education to political action. They wanted to offer what COFO activist Charlie Cobb described as “our own institutions to replace the old, unjust, decadent ones which make up the existing power structure.” Eleven-year-old Rosalyn Waterhouse of the Meridian Freedom School put the program’s pedagogical aims in simpler terms. “I am a Negro and I want to be free as any other child,” she wrote in a poem composed that summer. “To wander about the house and the woods and be wild./ I want to be Free, Free, Free.”