Craziness

I saw Chanan yesterday and she reminded me about this blog..so here I am again. I cannot wait until TSHA. It will be so exciting to see everyone again. It will be a nice break from all of the craziness at school. One of my campuses houses all of the pre-k and kindergarten classes in Waxahachie. At the beginning of the school year, my supervisor informed me that we had to screen every kid in that school. We finally got through it, sent home notices for those 40 something kids that needed further testing, tested the kids and then the greatness that was my life turned into the craziest, most stressful part of my life. I have done almost 30 ARDs between the end of November until now and I still have tons of kids to test and ARDs for those kids and ARDs for other kids that I tested. I have to say, I was very frustrated to find out that even though it was my supervisor's idea, I ended up doing 95% of the testing and ARDs by myself and they have all been added to my case load including a few that he tested. I did find out that it turned out to be okay and I love my kids, I was just frustrated at the time. I do have to add that he sees both PPCD classes and all of the private kids. Still, irritated would be my state of mind through this whole process, especially knowing that the head of special education hated the fact that we did this because it made our numbers going through the roof. I am relieved, however, that it is slowing down just a little bit but then I had to attend a workshop that basically said that I have to do this progress type form for all kids that entered the school district ages 3-5 and then have to do an exit form for those kids that turned 6. Luckily, not all of those kids are mine, but all of those 30 something kids I just added to my caseload do fit the criteria. The stress has returned. Needless to say, I still love my job, but I am so looking forward to TSHA just to get away from all of it. I hope everyone is doing great and I look forward to seeing you guys next month.