Because it is the loneliest month of all. Let mother Maia Chung tell you why:
AUTISM sucks. It’s like kryptonite to your soul. No matter how much you follow the rules, take them (children) to therapies, change their diets, take them to the right schools, it’s still [...]
Thanks to Autism Key for the vid. I love the woman’s comment about wanting to expose her child to something other than therapy. Ditto. “We want to feel normal,” she says. Ditto on that too. Our autistic boy has been taking karate lessons for a while now, but for me the biggest [...]
This excellent article presents a balanced picture of what is at stake in our changing educational environment. In this case the the debate is in North Carolina but the same issues affect us all:
The House debate was emotional. Rep. William Wainwright, D-Havelock, who is African-American, called the [...]
Talk to You Later-Notes to My Son: Day 127 of School
“I’m not convinced that anyone at the DOE has the best interest of the children in mind,” said Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, “We are not going to allow the students anywhere within PS 67 to be treated like second-class citizens.”
Parents fight for the rights of their special needs kids. I [...]
Every time we visit a California beach, I try to record it. Reason: to create aural postcards of our beautiful coast.
On the way back from Grammy’s. Wanted to go to San Onofre but couldn’t figure out how. Lots of military, border patrol, nuclear power. Thoughts of Japan. Your Mama found [...]
First Filipino teachers used to flock to the US for teaching jobs. Then they were abused by placement agencies. Now they’re getting laid off and forced to return home, not on the basis of seniority or performance, some claim, but because of their nationality. Only those who [...]
A new study by Western Michigan University researchers is the second study I’ve written about this school year that has found the KIPP network of charter schools enrolls a smaller proportion of English-language learners and special education students than the school districts they draw from.
During the 2007-08 school year, [...]
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