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Some of our kids' stated goals include sustained coloring with a time goal because they have to learn that endurance as well as the other established benefits that coloring provides.

Good Charlotte loved a sweater. Milo does not care for them and Miss Kicsi Simone Longbody cannot be fit into a sweater by any stretch of the imagination. You'd better succeed trying to dress a VW Beetle.

Wait. There was the day that Teacher B prompted him to tell her what my name is and he referred to me with the confidence of his whole little body that my name was his. She nearly pissed her pants laughing.

Yet another reason that Worthless Shit can just go piss up a rope.

play rough (piece of me?) sometimes he just wants to sit on a lap and be held for a second, sometimes he wants to elbow up- but all of these things are ways he has grown bc he is also using his words to ask for what he needs. Not bad for a kid that was written off as a violent, unteachable monster,

that is amazing to all of us. He will chase his peers with a snake, he will flap a bird to greet him (his hands are birds. Happy/sad/mad- his hand birds can be treacherous little buggers so that's a heads up situation) He actively seeks out interaction with staff- he asks for squeezes, he wants to

My mother wore something similar to a wedding. Also, I am ABSOLUTELY sure that you have better posture.

from other people. It is no wonder she thought of the school as her battlefield and the teachers/admin as her enemies. It is no wonder that he sees his current classroom in much the same way.

bc yes, there were times where they felt that and it was probably warranted but she didn't need to hear it from anyone, least of all the adults that were supposed to be helping her. There were so many things going wrong with her inside and out and the last thing she needed was more anger and hate

B was livid bc #1: don't talk to kids that way but also bc she has worked with that kid from the time he was very little (he has been in and out of our school several times) and they are bonded. Holy shit. That was so uncalled for and so fucking cruel.

to help him calm back down Teacher H (his current teacher) said "Don't be nice to him, B. He doesn't deserve nice things today." OH MY ABSOLUTE NO THE FUCK NOT. What are we doing as people, as teachers, as the guides to this awful world if we are going to speak to/about a child like that ever? NO.

HOLY SHIT. They are using US as their road watching eyes.

I love to learn but she trails off to the best places to find them and that's where I am out. Couldn't find a mushroom if you set the fucker on fire and had it belt out showtunes as it died.

Yeah, I have given up on Middle Child looking at the road in certain areas during certain parts of the year. I love that you have this obsession, I do but maybe don't kill me on the way down to the walmart bc your ass spotted some weird mushroom or another.

I think she does know- unfortunately she starts the whole mushroom thing and my eyes just glaze over and I start humming weird songs to myself.