Somehow you found another circle Dante didn't know about. Thank you for writing it, rankled or otherwise. My experience 50 miles north providing "home and community based services" for persons (formerly "patients" or "residents" then "consumers") with disabilities felt more farcical than epic or tragic. We did have a few meetings and school visits where I remember being stunned (already 20 years ago?!!) by the toleration of violent physical assaults on teachers and classmates. Our first meeting with an army of social workers, educators and behavior analysts had to be re-scheduled when the lead teacher was in the hospital after an "incident" with the kid we were meeting about. They wanted to use our staff at home until we declined to cosign with their plan at school. "It's concerning that you call it a RUN-AWAY PLAN."
Wow, a run-away plan! Haha. Scott, if I had a magic lie detector, and traced over your comment, each word would come up, “Truth. Truth.” People told me to go away, go 50 miles north, and I went 250 miles north to Grand Marais, where I was fired 6 months in, during a racial spat between a native EBD kid and a black kid. I did nothing to deserve it because I’d had 6 glowing commendations. All the vocab, patients, residents, consumers, sounds like edu-speak. I recently quit psych work when it became too violent. Holy crap.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and Karen!
Thanks, Connie. You too, you and Blaine! ❤️
Somehow you found another circle Dante didn't know about. Thank you for writing it, rankled or otherwise. My experience 50 miles north providing "home and community based services" for persons (formerly "patients" or "residents" then "consumers") with disabilities felt more farcical than epic or tragic. We did have a few meetings and school visits where I remember being stunned (already 20 years ago?!!) by the toleration of violent physical assaults on teachers and classmates. Our first meeting with an army of social workers, educators and behavior analysts had to be re-scheduled when the lead teacher was in the hospital after an "incident" with the kid we were meeting about. They wanted to use our staff at home until we declined to cosign with their plan at school. "It's concerning that you call it a RUN-AWAY PLAN."
Wow, a run-away plan! Haha. Scott, if I had a magic lie detector, and traced over your comment, each word would come up, “Truth. Truth.” People told me to go away, go 50 miles north, and I went 250 miles north to Grand Marais, where I was fired 6 months in, during a racial spat between a native EBD kid and a black kid. I did nothing to deserve it because I’d had 6 glowing commendations. All the vocab, patients, residents, consumers, sounds like edu-speak. I recently quit psych work when it became too violent. Holy crap.