Negative, Negative, Negative...

So do you ever notice that when you have a meeting about a specific topic that someone wants to discuss, it's not really about a discussion, it's more about griping about things? This morning we had this meeting to discuss prep time and teaching social skills. It basically turned into this session for everyone to complain about what they don't like about teaching Social Skills.

Now, let me just pause here and say that teaching social skills isn't so bad. Especially since we aren't even on the IEPs for actual goals and objectives. It's just that finding the time to do the planning is horrid. I could understand when a couple of the ladies said that they had some great ideas but they just didn't have time to sit down and plan them out.

Enough about that. I vented about my caseload in general and a lady who has been here 12 years said that she thinks I am being railroaded because it's my first year. When I mentioned that I have over 80 students that I work with in a week, they freaked out. I know that the students that I provide social skills for don't count towards my child count as I am not responsible for goals and objectives, so that narrows it down by 18 kids. That's still 60 which they thought was a bit much. It is. I just thought that I was being difficult for thinking that.

So, Amanda is watching the L-man today. She sent me a text message about the kid who never sleeps. I swear, sometimes I feel the same way. It's like when it's Saturday and I just want to sleep, he wants to be wide awake and when I am okay to get up, he wants to sleep. I should just tell her to act like it's opposite day with him to see if that helps her out.

More as events warrant...