Browncoat Bar and Grill- if you've got the money honey...I still don't have the time
POSTED BY: MsA
UPDATED: Friday, July 16, 2010 01:35
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This job. I am staggering around on like 2 hours sleep and do a behavior plan for a student that includes the kid taking his planner to class, the kid receiving rewards for being on task and completing work, and the kid having to fill out a short worksheet that asks him to analyze what he did wrong and what he should have been doing and what he will do next time to help him think through his choices and make better ones. The child advocate wrote back with a 3 page response ( after her brief profane one) telling me what I proposed was emotionally absuive to the child because I am suggesting there is something wrong with his behavior ( the behavior being refusing to go to school, refusing to complete work, threatening peers, assault of peers and staff, and non compliance) and that suggesting that he has done anything wrong is judgemental and demeaning and that I am a terrible behaviorist who should be kept away from this kid before I abuse him further with my evil plan.Also she is planning to sue me:) YAY
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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I'm sorry did you say his advocate as in this kid's got a lawyer, or someone who is supposed to be advocating for his success as a human being? Because I'm not seeing the latter here, really.
You didn't come right out and say "nasty little shit" so I'm presuming you were professional in your assessment.
Making the kid think about what he's done and how he can do better next time is abusive? Wow, I'm carrying on a family tradition of dysfunction apparently, and my husband is an accessory.
Come to think of it I should probably sue my son's school for the same thing.
O.M.F.G.
I am sorry you're faced with imbeciles, sweetie. The good news is that I sincerely doubt any judge, especially one in a family court setting, would do anything other than pick up the documents and roll them up, then smack the plaintiff in the nose with them.
Did you say the kid had to write that he was a horrible and worthless sub-human?
Did you suggest that food and water be withheld until he completes his self-recriminating list of imaginary infractions?
Did you recommend public flogging or castration?
No?
Hm.
Just not seeing it.
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It's an advocate for kids and she is known far and wide for her crazy behavior. Basically she has gone over the edge to where she thinks schools are abusive unless all they do is let the kid do whatever they want and it's sad because there are loads of good advocates out there who work with schools to help kids. She's just not one of them To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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Oh good.
IT'S NOT YOU. Just keep repeating that to yourself every time you have to work with her. And may that be infrequently if ever.
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It may be a measure of how cynical I am but I've dealt with far worse. Mostly I find her rants amusing like a crazed toddler tantrum
Years of teaching junior high has burned away my ability to care about other people's opinion of the job I am doing. To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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"blahblahblahblah" pitchfork through the head (mental landscape)?
I've got the shrimp in the fridge. (Boiled in cayenne water. Cilantro, white pepper, lime juice and salt added and sealed up in a zip-bag to infuse.)
Chicken's thawing, yogurt's making more of itself. Ginger to grate, more lime juice, coconut milk, cilantro to make a marinade with yogurt and possibly some more spices if I'm feeling puckish. That goes in the fridge overnight with the chicken cut up into chunks and added. Kebabish-things for the grill.
Sacrificial eggplant... do I gut it first and then turn it into sculpture, or do I just slice it and let it sit overnight... or do I make it look like an animal and have a big song and dance number before throwing it on the grill with seasoning added at the last minute... decisions, decisions.
Need to whip up the legumes (prolly lentils) and rice dishes in the morning. Bread might even happen.
I'm having a nice Magic Hat #9 and getting ready to dive back into the books. 3/3 labs done, turned in the one I forgot yesterday (points off.) and the two that aren't due yet just to make sure they get to the TA. (She handed the late one back when I tried to turn it in Tuesday. I will not make that mistake again.)Bio lab will just have to wait until Monday.
Chemistry homework isn't due until after the Bio exam on Monday, so guess which gets precedence?
(Even though studying for the exam may actually take less time than working the problems.)
Still no results from the Chem exam. Pass? Fail? Ace? Meh? Inquiring minds want to know. Nghhgh. 
Boychild had a tour of the school he'll be going to in the Fall. He was impressed. Two gyms. Band. Chorus. Computers everywhere. A garden which will also be a science/weather station. Multiple playgrounds. Use of the high school track. Multiple activity clubs. Promise of all the books he can eat. Zehr cool!
The first of the black raspberries were ripe today. Mmm. Nommies.
Beer. Beer and books.
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I want to come for dinner! At least I'm not the only one who can't figure out what to do with eggplants To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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Hop a plane, there's time! The party's not until tomorrow.
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MSA Here
Why have you all gone quiet?
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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn
Smarts are the brains that make America think.
-Will Sasso as Steven Segal, MadTV
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Apologies on the going quiet side of things. I've just ran out of things that are worth contributing to the conversation. Nothing too interesting going on at the minute.
College is over and I sleep all day.
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