Re: Blog/joan

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Joan Medlen wrote:

>Ok, I will admit it...I need reading glasses. Maybe I

just WANT to be at the beach instead of work today?

> Who knows...it snowed today, briefly (big deal here).

I WISH it would snow here! Did it actually stick? Hard to believe anything

could stick after all that rain you had!

Of course the beach sounds pretty good too right now. It's supposed to be in

the 60's here today, then 68 Thurs & Friday, then drop into the 40's for the

weekend and possibly snow! And I wonder why we've all been sick???

Yo-yo weather!

>One year as we drove up to the middle school,

>said, " Why HIM? " It was a riot. It was the year Andy

figured out he could wrap his arm around a girl's

neck...that " possessive athlete sort of thing. " The

> girls loved it. I called them his " minions. " Good

> thing they dont know what that means.

LOL! That will probably be , he's already got the girls loving him and

he's only 6 1/2! Girls just seem to flock to him. I think at 6 years old, it's

more of a motherly instinct than a romantic thought though! We'll see what

pans out in the teen years! And of course, we'll all still be here reading and

sharing the humor of our future Romeo's!

>If only that was the only time. IT was merely the

>first time. Just last year Andy was held hostage in a

>one person bathroom covered in diarrhea (the onset of

>Celiac Disease) b/c the Ed Assistant abandoned him and

>talked someone into holding hte door shut until I

>arrived FORTY MINUTES LATER. Just last year.

>The institutions are closed, but there are days when I

>am overwhelmed by how little things change.

Oh Joan, I remember you posting that story, it just makes me so sad to picture

the fear and humiliation Andy must have felt. What ever happened to the Ed

Assistant ( I use that term loosly)?

When I hear of these stories and think about the awful teacher

suffered through last year with, I just wonder why the heck these people go into

this profession? Do they really think they can just sit back and do nothing or

worse, do what Andy's Assis. did, and no one will notice or say anything? Maybe

they were able to get away with that for a certain length of time but the jig is

up, parents have allies in the schools that are the eyes and ears. And

nowadays, most know to document, document, document!

We are so happy with 's staff this year, it feels so good to know he's

in a caring, sensitive, and happy environment. Last year, was one big ulcer - I

shudder when I think of just how cold-hearted some people are!

(where do you live, Jayne?)

I live in field, Virginia. Home of field Ham and The World's Largest

Ham Biscuit! YEP!

Remember I lived in Rapid City and knew of your friend who was a genetic

counselor there?

We move a little too often thanks to the US Air Force but we're here for about

2 more years. Then it's off to Maine (my husbands home state, I moved there

from Wisconsin at 17) to retire, for the first time - we certainly won't be

packing up an RV and hittin' the open road! My husband will only be in his early

40's!

Jayne

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