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Speech, Language, Development, Biology, and Why This World Makes No Sense

My son’s psychiatrist is going out of business (I guess you have to say “closing her practice”) because she can get paid only 37% of the time from the insurance companies. She is a developmental pediatrician AND a child psychiatrist so charges health insurance as a primary care physician. I like that mental health treatment […]

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There’s a place where others live, but I’ve never been there. They seem to know themselves, create a destiny, assume goals, attain them, and all without doubt.
They know their values are their values. They don’t question whether they simply mimic the values they’ve been raised with. They don’t worry whether what they believe is […]

School Progress and Discipline Questions

I’m an undergoing an education in elementary education. It’s not all bad, but it’s a lesson that you think I would have learned by now. You have to speak up, you have to advocate. I think that folks who regularly complain about government not doing things well perhaps do nothing to effectively advocate for their […]

For Now, Some Peace

I made some noise with the school about consistency with the SBIT plan (see this post). Lo and behold — all of a sudden my son is not being sent home or sent out of the classroom to the principal’s office. What changed?
I was told that sometimes kindergartners are different after the winter break. They […]

Kindergarten: Compassion 101

I need to address the issue raised by Blake’s teachers during our meeting about his difficulties at school. During what they called a “SBIT” (pronounced “sih-bit”, stands for “School-Based Intervention Team”), the following conclusions were arrived at:

He thrives on one-to-one tutoring, but they can’t spend that kind of time with him,
His difficulties with […]

Beginning the Fight

I was put through Catholic school from 1st grade through high school. It was a different time then. The tuition was free when I first started in 1965, and then it went up to a hefty $100 per year by the time I graduated 8th grade. By 12th grade, in 1976, the annual tuition climbed […]