piglet1979
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- Mar 18, 2015
I am catching up. I am thankful for DD finally getting into the Neurologist. We have a plan but right now it is not working. It just takes time. She is on a daily med now but it will take awhile for it to kick in. We were also told to go to the ER when she got a bad migraine. Well that was Saturday but the meds only worked for about 16 hours. It was nice to be able to send a message to the doctor and get a response buy 8 this morning on what we should do. They said go to the ER again and that she needs stronger meds and those are IV ones. I have it in writing so I know what to tell the ER doc. We haven't gone yet since she is taking her AP gov test and I have no way to get ahold of her. As soon as she is done I am picking her up and taking her. I am so thankfully that after 6-9 months I feel like we have support and someone that can help.
1. Think of your favorite elementary teacher. What made them special?
1. Think of your favorite elementary teacher. What made them special?
- I feel like I had some pretty mean Elementary teachers. My Kindergarten teacher was great. We had monarch butterflies that we released, had a wedding for Q and U, a letters people program that I got to be one of only 6 students out of like 50 to do a dance and she was just so nice. I was behind in speech and had a learning disability but I never felt different in her class. My 6th grade teacher was great too. He was very kind though we all had to take turns reading stuff in class. I hated that.
- I had several. My first grade teacher was mean and I got yelled at a lot because my desk (the inside part) was always a mess and things falling out. Though she is the teacher that caught my eye issue. I had the same teacher for 2nd and 4th grade and she was mean too but looking back maybe she wasn't too bad. She called me Stephy all the time and I hated it and she yelled a lot (we all called her bug eyes because when ever she yelled her eyes got really big. You knew when she was mad) and in 4th grade I started a new school and she pulled me up right at the beginning of class on the first day and embarrassed me. She also didn't fall for me being stick with a stomach ache every day. I am sure it was anxiety because I was so much further behind in Math then everyone. I also had a tutor that for an entire year she could not say my last name properly and every day I would correct her (I had an easy last name too). I think my 5th grade teacher was the worst though. She was horribly mean, painted her nails in class every day. We got in trouble all the time for very minor things. I think I didn't do 1 assignment and I had to stay at recess to write definitions from the dictionary.
- My 7th grade science teacher was my favorite of all my teachers. He was a lot of fun. The first assignment was to write the directions on how to make a PB&J sandwich. The day that they were due he brought in everything he needed to make one and then followed our directions. It really showed you how to write out every step. I used this a lot with what I do now at work. I have a huge fear of snakes and when we had to watch a movie on them I turned around and wouldn't watch it. He thought it was the funniest thing. He had Polio as a kid and we all knew that if there was any type of fire or had to be evacuated we knew where to go because it would take him longer to get down the stairs. In high school I also dated his son (we are the same age) for a short time.
- My 8th grade science teach was the worst. He made comments to the girls all the time. Yelled at me because I went to my 7th grade teacher for help once. I even got pulled into the teachers lounge by our police officer to answer questions about him. He was just awful. They ended up moving him to in school suspensions. It was a better place for him but he should never have been teaching.
- My home ec teacher. She was a great teacher. Helped teach me a lot about sewing. I made my prom dress one year. I also made a flannel and a blazer. She also helped a lot with helping me to find what I wanted to do with my life. I think I had her almost every year for something in home ec. She didn't candy coat things and she expected a lot but was also very caring.
- I have 2. My freshman english teacher had no control over the class but because she was the coach of the JV soccer team (I played JV that year) I got in trouble for talking to my friend while other kids were smoking. I don't even really remember her teaching anything. My geography teacher in 10th grade was another one that had no control. It was bad. worse then the english teacher. No teaching went on at all in this class.
- My comp 1 teacher. I went to the university for 1 semester but for this class somehow ended up at the local community college. She was great with helping me (this was were my learning disability was at). She took her time and helped me through out the semester. I was going to take her for comp 2 but I ended up going back home and going to the local community college here.
- I don't think I had a bad one just ones I don't really remember. I think I would give this to the office of disability at the university I went to. I went in before school started to set up services because I knew I would need help. They refused to help because my IEP was not active any longer. It ended about 2 years before I graduated high school. I was so mad. Here I was asking for help so I can succeed and no matter what I said, they would not help. I ended up doing great in college and really didn't need it.
