Thursday, February 10, 2005
a note from home
As part of the regular process to facilitate good communication with a student's family and other primary caregivers, and to foster a positive relationship that encourages and supports student development and learning. . .
(yeah, I talk the talk)
. . . students come to school everyday with a small, typically spiral, notebook that is used to send messages and information between the student's home and school. School writes about the day at school, home writes about what happened at home. Nothing fancy, you get the idea.
Sometimes these notes have a brevity and a tone that suggests a frantic effort in a time of chaos to get the student ready for school and out the door in the morning. Imagine hastily written words sprawled almost haphazardly across the page.
I find this highly amusing.
This morning, the note from the mother of one of my big teenage boy with profound autism said only this:
"He refused to bathe this AM. He is wearing 5 pairs of pants."
True dat. He is wearing 5 pairs of pants. Boxers, three pairs of spandex bicycle shorts, and elastic waistband sweatpants.
A year or so ago, I received another such frantic note regarding this student with whom you are by now, my dear reader, already aquainted.
It was scrawled in pencil, unsigned and undated on a torn piece of paper stained with grease spots of unknown origin:
"X refused to put on underwear"
Very true. He seldom wears underwear, or even pants.
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(yeah, I talk the talk)
. . . students come to school everyday with a small, typically spiral, notebook that is used to send messages and information between the student's home and school. School writes about the day at school, home writes about what happened at home. Nothing fancy, you get the idea.
Sometimes these notes have a brevity and a tone that suggests a frantic effort in a time of chaos to get the student ready for school and out the door in the morning. Imagine hastily written words sprawled almost haphazardly across the page.
I find this highly amusing.
This morning, the note from the mother of one of my big teenage boy with profound autism said only this:
"He refused to bathe this AM. He is wearing 5 pairs of pants."
True dat. He is wearing 5 pairs of pants. Boxers, three pairs of spandex bicycle shorts, and elastic waistband sweatpants.
A year or so ago, I received another such frantic note regarding this student with whom you are by now, my dear reader, already aquainted.
It was scrawled in pencil, unsigned and undated on a torn piece of paper stained with grease spots of unknown origin:
"X refused to put on underwear"
Very true. He seldom wears underwear, or even pants.
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