Sunday SLAM!
(I'm calling this the "Sunday SLAM!" because I m just going to slam out whatever comes to my mind for fifteen minutes or so. Let's see how this goes and if I like it I will make this a weekly thing.)
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There is no way to get around it... in order to be the best I can be and to provide the best I can for my children, I have to go back to school! I have to finish my masters, or start over actually, so that I can use the skills I learn in my classes with my children and to improve myself and my career. I was a Special Education teacher before O was born but now that a decade has passed and I feel completely incompetent there is no way I can go back into the classroom. I feel like such a failure. I need to LEARN how to really work with the children that have been put in my life and go to school to learn how to most effectively help them. Therefore I am starting my classes in September toward a degree in Mental Health Counseling. I am pursuing a program that will enable me to sit for the licencing exam after graduation. There is a tremendous need EVERYWHERE for mental health counselors, but especially for pediatric care, I think. We have been waiting on so many lists for so many different services it is not even funny! There are just not enough specialists around to fill the need!
I pray pray pray that what I learn in my classes will help me in my own home right away as well. There are tremendous changes coming as the kids are changing schools so that they can get the special education services they need. The school they have been in is not able to meet their needs due to the fact that the classes are all too large, there are no support services like social workers, quiet rooms, counselors on site or social workers, and no OT rooms. They are struggling with just about everything in their classrooms now, and I NEED to get them the support they need. The law has to provide the least restrictive environment first, but their needs are so great and it seems the school wants to try this and that to see how they do before giving them the more "restrictive" SUPPORT they are really needing right now! It is killing me! They are floundering and I feel like there is so little I can do. The school has felt like there is so little they can do to help them too. It is just ridiculously frustrating. I have been to CSE three times for my third grader and we still don't have it right! My fourth grader is just beginning the process toward a CSE meeting as she has had a 504 until now. The battery of assessments were just done last week, now we wait for the results and the date for the CSE meeting before we determine just what services would be best for her at this time. The process takes forever and it is just so maddening. I was on the other side of it before... implementing the IEP and ensuring accommodations were made for the student, now I am finding the process toward obtaining the appropriate accommodations to be the WORST!
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