Fighting the Dark Cloud of pudge!!

Thank you so much for your support everyone.  Moon Fairy, I would love to tell you that this is a rare occurrence in schools but it is not.  I worry that we share the building with a daycare!!!  I contacted one of my friends who is a principal with the safe schools area - so she moves the kids who cause problems basically.  She told me she was punched in the eye once - and that was a much “better” school than mine.

The problem with my school is that alternative schools can become dumping grounds for problem kids if the people running it let it.  The person before me was sooooo determined to become a VP that she kissed any #ss to get promoted.  This, unfortunately was why she allowed tons of unsuitable kids into our school.

Who should be in our school?  I am not going to say that our client base are “stepford” kids, but usually they have had some hard knocks; they are kids who dropped out etc but at 16 or 17 saw they were going no where so went back to school.  They want to be in school.  Even the spitter did really well when she wasn’t freaking out - which sadly happened too often.  I am only allowing kids who want to make a difference in their lives in.  My admin team is still letting problems we should not take in, but as I refused to sign the registration papers, and as they are not on site all that often, we only get one or two problems rather than 15 or 20.

But as a Special Education specialist (although my present school is not special ed) I dealt with some kids like these in other schools.

Other than ignoring my diette all together, I see today I am actually down 5!  Ok, I had gone up to a new all time high last week, but either it was “fake” fatte, or those leptin pills are actually starting to work!  I will keep you posted on that.

Difficult time to be job searching…

Cheers!