Dear lovely people on this thread,

you all made me LOL big time which I really needed after my week.

Dear work,

My room has some kids with really, really high behavioral needs. And I say that after having observed classes elsewhere. Sure, my kids can read and write but some of them STILL HAVE BIG BEHAVIORAL ISSUES. I can get maybe 15 minutes of teaching in a 4 hour day and those 15 minutes are conducted trying to make myself heard over the singing, screaming, flying objects and things being pushed over in the class. "You guys are still doing pretty ok" is NOT what I expect to hear from the intervention specialists simply because there are management issues.