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Despite the problems, I have enjoyed this year. I am hoping that next year will not be as stressful, because I know what is expected of me and I have a lot of things made that will make it easier. 🙂 Then I have the summer to get things organized, so that I can find everything.
How have we done’ According to the figures, we had 18% growth by the children intervened. We are required to have 15 % growth. I feel this program is really working well. I can not wait to see how the Kindergarten children do next year. They are so well prepared. Even the slow ones have grown a lot. Sad to say Mr. GW, 😡 there will always be a child left behind. Why you ask”’ Because the special ed department has too many restrictions put on the children yet at the same time shoves them into the regular classroom when they should be in a self contained one. Yes, this does not apply to all special ed. This applies to those whom have serious learning difficulties that we can not meet in the regular classroom. If they were in a well run special ed self contained room, they would learn skills that they could at least suceed in the world. Instead, they are forced to be work on the level of others that causes them to feel extreme frustration. We have a specific child at our school. He is a precious child right now, but he is unable to go past a certain level. This increased frustration will cause the child to become a problem as he grows older. It depresses :'( all of us who would love to find the solution. Self-contained is not allowed because of reasons we are not aware, but there are specific federal guidelines. I did have another child that I worked with and was able to work at his specific level. He, of course, could not work at grade level, but he was feeling success. The parent moved to another location and all we have heard is that he is in trouble all the time. At our school, we knew them and loved them. They might not have gotten it at home, but we tried very hard with them. We knew what they were living with.
The only reason we have been able to do “no child left behind”, is that our principal sat down and wrote a grant. We qualified and have been working very hard to keep it going. We, of course, are not guaranteed anything, because federal money has a way of disappearing. The other schools in our parish that did not apply for the grant are having to do a lot of the things we are doing with NO MONEY.
Reading is still the same thing as the program I received college credit for year before last. The only difference is that we are intervening and meeting specific needs. So if we do not have any more politicians come in and decide this should be changed, I do think things will progress. We do know that we have got to give the children what they are missing at home. Hopefully, it will not mean taking the children in from the cradle and raising them completely. We are beginning to feel that now.
My attitude is rapidly growing more stronger as the time goes by. I always knew that the older you get the less patience you have and the stronger your opinions become. Well, I am beginning to wish that I could become more involved with things that may help instead of standing on the sidelines and fussing. Somewhere somehow I will become more involved with something that I can be proud of and accomplish including my working with children. I hope there is a rise of more dynamic women that want to change things. We need some more “suffraggettes” to be born or older women to think like them. Where are the women who feel strong about changing things’ Why are we still so quiet’ Are we still puppets of our spouses’ It is embarrassing to see the things women did in my grandmothers day to achieve what we have today, and still women (young and old) stand back and let someone else speak for them….All I can do is continue searching!

April 28th, 2005 at 4:47 pm

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