Anticipate lower Elok availability

[I AM MOBIUS]

I didn't say that you said I said it was.

[Sava]

I didn't say that you said I said you said it was.

[I AM MOBIUS]

[Sava]

[Imran Siddiqui]

Gentlemen, this is a me thread. Me me me me me ****ing me. Kindly take other subjects--such as a Manichean debate about the military--to another thread.

YOU are the one who asked us to anticipate lower Elok availability. We just did our jobs too well

[I AM MOBIUS]

Yeah, Elok who?

[I AM MOBIUS]

**** that creeps me out - you win!

[Sava]

yay

[Elok]

Well, to each his own, of course. Good luck.

The thing about being a para is, you get to meet and work with some pretty awesome kids. Down Syndrome kids, for example, are just great fun--they give you an excuse to drop your inhibitions and act silly. Last time I was with a DS kid, we went funny-walking together all down the hallway, and he was laughing hysterically all the way. Left that middle school with a gigantic smile on my face.

And ironically, for all that some folks worry about them, they face an arguably brighter future than the majority of students. That boy will grow up surrounded by people who look out for him, and eventually he'll get a job working fast food or something, and he'll be quite happy and content there. He'll get twice the tips of everybody else, and he'll happily share them, and he'll just generally spend most of his life around people who like him. He'll never read Shakespeare, but hell, most of us who can never do. For disabled kids, the system in general seems to work.

[N35t0r]

But at what cost?!

[edit:] x-post, directed at Sava's post.

[Sava]

The thing about being a para is, you get to meet and work with some pretty awesome kids. Down Syndrome kids, for example, are just great fun--they give you an excuse to drop your inhibitions and act silly. Last time I was with a DS kid, we went funny-walking together all down the hallway, and he was laughing hysterically all the way. Left that middle school with a gigantic smile on my face.

And ironically, for all that some folks worry about them, they face an arguably brighter future than the majority of students. That boy will grow up surrounded by people who look out for him, and eventually he'll get a job working fast food or something, and he'll be quite happy and content there. He'll get twice the tips of everybody else, and he'll happily share them, and he'll just generally spend most of his life around people who like him. He'll never read Shakespeare, but hell, most of us who can never do. For disabled kids, the system in general seems to work.

But at what cost?!

[edit:] x-post, directed at Sava's post.

you'll have to be more specific

[N35t0r]

your victory

[Dinner]

You can get decent tablets for less than $100 now, virtually all phones are smart phones and have WiFi browsing so you don't have to use wireless data plans, and if you don't play resourcing hogging games then a decent computer can be bought for $300-$500 depending how one defines decent.

There really is no excuse to be off line these days.

[Sava]

your victory

I had to do what I had to do. For freedom.

[Elok]

Okay, lady at the county finally got back to me. I have basically no shot at teaching history, but if I can get a master's in teaching (and they accept online courses, apparently), I can teach middle school English. That's in high demand, presumptively because of their bizarre insistence on splitting it into "reading" and "language arts." Also they will have at least one para opening next year, they only fill those internally, and I'm somehow "more than qualified." I've asked for clarification on a few points, since I'm afraid that one opening will be at the one school I stopped subbing at b/c of the incompetent admin (and subsequently crazy/horrid kids). Half a dozen teachers transferred out of there in the past year alone. I'll go to friggin' Florida first.

Still: cautious optimism. Cautious optimism.