Mine drove me crazy for the first few years. Now i notice it a lot less. Sometimes if i put that ear on my pillow the wooshing drowns out the screeching.

They won’t spend a nickel on education unless they pass his stupid voucher bill. We’re drowning and he’s holding 20 billion life preservers.

We live inside the earth. Dogs say barf.

Nope. Going to get my holiday tree tomorrow.

Cool but sunny, check out his shades and puffy jacket. His ski bag is probably in the car.

Way older than that i think. I’d guess 80s. Retired people have a lot of free time.

A low pitched hum that they don’t even notice until they leave and appreciate the silence when they’re away from it.

Oh shit. Are we coworkers? Is it me?

I visit classrooms where children frequently scream with every breath for long periods of time. I also see children who plop to the floor many many times per day without “shattering a femur”. We don’t know if these behaviors were common for this child. We don’t know if the staff knew the child well enough to know if these were common behaviors for him. There is more to this story than the article presents and the use of the word shattered feels like clickbait language to me.

ETA- Special ed is almost always understaffed. In Texas right now we have a governor who is attacking public education by withholding funding in an attempt to get his school voucher bill passed. We are seeing a big increase in students with high needs at a time when everyone is underfunded. It’s creating an incredibly stressful environment and we are losing teachers and paraprofessionals daily. We have many classes being run on a shoestring staff with substitute help when we can get it. It sucks. It sucks to see your co-workers emotionally and physically abused. It sucks to see great teachers leave because they can’t take it anymore. It sucks to see kids who need more and to know that their chance of getting a trained qualified special ed teacher this year is slim. It sucks every single fucking day.

If you know one child with autism, you know one child with autism. Like all individuals, they are incredibly varied and the range of things they will do to gain or avoid attention is vast.

I can’t tell you the number of children i see who lie on the floor crying without a broken leg. These students can be very very difficult and their school plan is usually ignore the negative behaviors and feed the appropriate behaviors. People think autism is the quirky introvert and don’t understand the range of it. Not defending staff - they should have checked on him - but they were likely paras who were doing what they were trained to do. Also, who ‘shatters’ their femur from a fall? Something’s not right with this article.

It’s just words on a screen. Easy enough to scroll on by without commenting. On my screen, upvote usually means ‘thanks for sharing’ rather then agreement.

I feel this. I have a really hard time with holidays and i hate the media portrayal that it’s a beautiful day for everyone. Abuse, neglect, illness, and everything else continues regardless of the calendar. This will be my second Christmas without my mom. I keep thinking of all the things she did over the years to make Christmas nice for me and it’s made me want to participate a little more this year.

Yeah, they keep calling it a 3 page manifesto. One of the people interviewed said it’s just 3 pages with writing on them, not like paragraph after paragraph for 3 pages.

That title is misleading. The article says doctors can write prescriptions for off-label treatments with patients permission.

I dunno. I kind of think we should let them try, just to see what sort of pushback they get, except that I’m afraid there wouldn’t be any.

Ooh. Yeah!

We’re so lucky Trump saved it from…

These are just excuses for doing nothing. The pre-election chatter doesn’t matter because he’s elected.

The biggest different in these for me is atmosphere/cleanliness and quality of store brands. I’d choose HEB for both of those any day. I rarely go to the Walmart that’s 6 blocks from my house or the HEB that’s 8 miles away. Usually do the Kroger and sprouts that are 2 miles from home.