I finally caught up this thread. And like a few others, I do not believe arming teachers is the answer. My teachers are just that teachers. If they choose to go through the proper channels and...
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One of the teachers I'm close with is a new to the anti vax train, and I do everything I can to talk her back to the side of science when she asks me things. But we had a convo earlier this week about...
Kidz, I agree with every one of your comments. I don't just want better laws, I want people to enforce the laws we currently have in place[/b] This man is one in a string of mass shoots who should NOT...
This makes my heart ache. Such small ones thinking such large and dangerous thoughts. It's normal to be shaken up by a situation like this. Like Far said, we never know how alone we are until a real...
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Sending Prayers, love and peace your way. Like the other's said, it's ok not to know. All you can do is focus on the things you can control from here, even if it's not as much as you'd like it to
I had a similar situation in the fall, but I told the behavioral team that I would only do it if there was room (which there rarely is) and that this is something they should be pulling in the parents...
I would LOVE an IM system. There are so many times when I would like to discreetly ask a question to staff (has bobby been coughing "all morning" like he says or is it because it's math
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Sad C'mon now. I have a student in my office who has a flu like symptoms who's been with me for 3 hours now. He burst into tears a minute ago saying "they aren't going to come for me". Last year they...
This is a hard one. In my district another school has a little one who refuses to take it at school, but will take it from mom, so the little one's mom comes in to administer it because he would not...
We do different leadership groups for the older ones and they pick new groups for each half of the year. Usually I'm combined with the PE group but this time they wanted to try to break me into my own...
Hooray for Friday! I'm having people over for the Big Game Sunday (bandwagon Eagles fan for the weekend!) and I am planning on carpet cleaning most of our house since my pup has been extra naughty...
Both my school and district are really into emergency preparedness. In your situation, depending on where the student was located, we would be evacuating the rest of the building. We have set points...
Obviously, it's just like the lice I keep here in the school to sprinkle on kids heads to add a bit of excitement to my day. Because lice ONLY comes from
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Pass States "Pony tail hit her in the eye" Student is in no distress, no redness in sclera, no tears. I tell the little one, "You look a-ok, go head back" Little one: "But our substitute said I...
My head nurse actually is the one who hires and fires nurses here. I feel like it's almost like the dealing with the federal and local government. My health service director takes care of all of the...