6 Jun
2013
6 Jun
'13
3:14 p.m.
On 6/6/13 8:47 AM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 06/06/2013 07:57 AM, geneb wrote:
My wife was an instructional aide at a school that was 'mainstreaming',
primarily because the district didn't want to pay for special ed. One
day, a student who was 'acting out' threw a chair at her - not a plastic
stackable, a heavy wood armchair.
The child was a third grader.
My wife asked for support on dealing with issues like this, and the
response was essentially a shrug. The child was not disciplined for what
was, regardless of her age, an assault on school staff.
My wife quit shortly thereafter. It wasn't because she was afraid of
injury, but rather the sense of helplessness and hopelessness, realizing
that children like this are just being warehoused in a school system that
doesn't know how to address the needs of either high- or low-achieving
students, and muddles along in the middle.
Administrators are paid well, and there are a lot of them.
Enough of that, it's too damn depressing. I was rewiring the connections
between tape drives on a Unisys V380 this morning. The drives want to see
a 208V 40A three-phase feed. That's in addition to the 40A (single phase
240) to the CPU, and the 30A to the I/O cabinet. Those are some serious
wires, and they don't listen well when you ask them to bend or coil. :-)
-- Ian
Describing v4 as having "issues" is
like describing Tuberculosis(sp) as
being a "slight cough".
I was once graphically exposed to the education term-of-art "issues" and
have never forgotten it. I'd decided to do some volunteer tutoring of
students in a local middle school (US grades 6-8) here. I was warned by
a friend who taught in the same system that this was one school where
they were attempting to "mainstream" children with behavioral problems.
I Asked him what that entailed. He responded only that some children
had issues.
Uh-huh. Running around the classroom screaming in today's edu-talk is a
behavioral "issue".