tacokick Are you opposed to sandwiches? Our local food co-op makes really good chicken salad, and I don't mind a turkey sandwich with swiss on nice bread. Quiche as mentioned by pp is really easy for leftovers.
How about egg bites (made in a muffin tin). A big pot of chili and cornbread could be dinner and several days of lunches. I buy Morningstar farms chick patties or veggie patties for emergency lunches - they're very filling on a bagel and take about 45 seconds to make.
I am not opposed to sandwiches but I always feel like they end up being pricy once I get the ingredients to make them actually tasty.
I’ll check out those patties! We are really lacking easy solutions for meals all around.
I’m debating about putting some chili in the slow cooker before bed tonight to have to lunch tomorrow, if that works, that might be a good addition with low effort.
I am having the strangest experience working for this new company. I started under a temporary contract. I think I'm full time now? No one really seems to know exactly who I'll be working with and I don't have an offer letter and haven't spoken to HR. My temporary thing was ending this week so I guess they have some time LOL
On the plus side, what a different experience than the world/career I left when my son was born. I have an issue with getting my son home from school so THEY suggested I go get him and then finish the day from home. "We all have kids, we've all been there." The investment firms I worked for in NYC thought we were property, not people. Good things like this generally don't happen to me.
My mom used to pack me snacky lunches for school like that! I need to channel her lunch energy.
Thanks for the recipe links!!
This reminded me of my favorite lunch that I haven’t packed in a while, it’s basically a mini-charcuterie: crackers, salami, olives, nuts and marinated mozzarella cheese balls.
waverly if you are looking for permission to not respond, consider it granted.
You owe them nothing. It sounds like your friendship has long been exclusively on their terms and at their convenience. That's not much of a friendship and it's OK to keep it in the past.
The randoms lately have been so busy! It's like 4 pages by the time I get a minute to sit down and relax lol.
I just saw on Facebook someone said they tip hotel front desk $100 when they check in and $100 when they check out. That's crazy right? The thought has literally never even crossed my mind to tip the front desk, nevermind one hundred dollars!
The randoms lately have been so busy! It's like 4 pages by the time I get a minute to sit down and relax lol.
I just saw on Facebook someone said they tip hotel front desk $100 when they check in and $100 when they check out. That's crazy right? The thought has literally never even crossed my mind to tip the front desk, nevermind one hundred dollars!
Dude, no, that's not a thing. Tip housekeeping, the bellman, and room service but there is no reason to tip the desk.
I am trying to figure out if I am overreacting because I’m tired and cranky or if my frustration level is appropriate. I understand that schools are desperate for subs and that the quality/experience may vary. I’m trying to give grace, but finding it harder and harder.
For background, I have an 11yo diagnosed with dyslexia at the end of 4th grade. His teachers didn’t suspect it, but we pushed to have him tested due to his struggles with writing prompts, combined with a family history. He had accommodations for dyslexia and dysgraphia last year and started 6th grade (MS) in early August. Unfortunately, he’s had a long term sub with zero experience as his ELAR teacher for the first 6.5 weeks. There’s been little to no communication from the sub, although my DS has expressed frustration about the amount of writing (normal and expected) and lack of grades. His 1st progress report was on 9/15 with a grade of 100, but after grades were finally submitted his grade has dropped to a 70 only seven days later. His accommodations include 50% more time on his daily assignments, but he was asked Friday if he thought he deserved more time than other students when he had spent some of class time talking and he did not receive additional time today. We’ve had a conversation about the talking situation and making good choices, but at the end of the day it shouldn’t matter. My 11yo is acing all of his other classes, but writing is his Achilles heel and he STRUGGLES hard with it. There have been multiple other smaller issues, but I’m trying to balance being patient and understanding with advocating for my child. Complicating matters is the teacher is expected back in early October and I’ve yet to hear back from the dyslexia specialist who I emailed Friday morning to clarify the logistics of 50% more time. I will be polite in whatever email I send, but I am pissed that I’m just now finding out about any issues near the end of the 1st quarter and that he may not have been receiving his accommodations.
TLDR: Would you email the sub to clarify how the accommodations are being handled and leave out all the rest? DS does not want me to mention the comment he made and I would prefer to honor his request.
The randoms lately have been so busy! It's like 4 pages by the time I get a minute to sit down and relax lol.
I just saw on Facebook someone said they tip hotel front desk $100 when they check in and $100 when they check out. That's crazy right? The thought has literally never even crossed my mind to tip the front desk, nevermind one hundred dollars!
I am trying to figure out if I am overreacting because I’m tired and cranky or if my frustration level is appropriate. I understand that schools are desperate for subs and that the quality/experience may vary. I’m trying to give grace, but finding it harder and harder.
For background, I have an 11yo diagnosed with dyslexia at the end of 4th grade. His teachers didn’t suspect it, but we pushed to have him tested due to his struggles with writing prompts, combined with a family history. He had accommodations for dyslexia and dysgraphia last year and started 6th grade (MS) in early August. Unfortunately, he’s had a long term sub with zero experience as his ELAR teacher for the first 6.5 weeks. There’s been little to no communication from the sub, although my DS has expressed frustration about the amount of writing (normal and expected) and lack of grades. His 1st progress report was on 9/15 with a grade of 100, but after grades were finally submitted his grade has dropped to a 70 only seven days later. His accommodations include 50% more time on his daily assignments, but he was asked Friday if he thought he deserved more time than other students when he had spent some of class time talking and he did not receive additional time today. We’ve had a conversation about the talking situation and making good choices, but at the end of the day it shouldn’t matter. My 11yo is acing all of his other classes, but writing is his Achilles heel and he STRUGGLES hard with it. There have been multiple other smaller issues, but I’m trying to balance being patient and understanding with advocating for my child. Complicating matters is the teacher is expected back in early October and I’ve yet to hear back from the dyslexia specialist who I emailed Friday morning to clarify the logistics of 50% more time. I will be polite in whatever email I send, but I am pissed that I’m just now finding out about any issues near the end of the 1st quarter and that he may not have been receiving his accommodations.
TLDR: Would you email the sub to clarify how the accommodations are being handled and leave out all the rest? DS does not want me to mention the comment he made and I would prefer to honor his request.
The late grades are obnoxious but likely to be expected with a long-term sub who may not have access to the gradebook/be the one inputting grades. Denying his accommodations is burn it down territory, though. It's the teacher's job to manage the classroom in such a way that kids can focus. Chaos happens, but revoking a kid's documented accommodation as a behavior management technique is a huge violation (potentially of federal law if it's written into an IEP) and the principal needs to be looped in. If it's happening to your kid it's happening to others as well, and those kids might not have parents who are as clued in as you are. I'd email the sub and CC the principal first thing in the morning.
macmars45, nsl, thanks for the feedback. I will likely email him and copy his dyslexia teacher and 504 coordinator since I haven’t received a response yet about how the extra time is handled. This MS has a great reputation and he’s loving his other classes, but my kiddo was in tears this weekend over an assignment, worrying about potentially failing ELAR and not being able to participate in extracurricular activities.
mlkgls, I'm so sorry his teacher's assholery is causing him so much stress. Teachers making excuses for not following IEPs and 504 plans is a hot topic in secondary ed social media right now, and it makes me angrier than I can say as both an educator and the mom of a kid who needs accommodations that so many of my colleagues think it's okay to ignore those documents because they're "stressed." Kids are also stressed, especially those with disabilities whose accommodations are being ignored by their teachers.
mlkgls, I'm so sorry his teacher's assholery is causing him so much stress. Teachers making excuses for not following IEPs and 504 plans is a hot topic in secondary ed social media right now, and it makes me angrier than I can say as both an educator and the mom of a kid who needs accommodations that so many of my colleagues think it's okay to ignore those documents because they're "stressed." Kids are also stressed, especially those with disabilities whose accommodations are being ignored by their teachers.
This all day. It’s my pet peeve and the hardest thing to navigate with my colleagues. Follow my kid’s damn accommodations. It’s not a choice.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
mlkgls , I'm so sorry his teacher's assholery is causing him so much stress. Teachers making excuses for not following IEPs and 504 plans is a hot topic in secondary ed social media right now, and it makes me angrier than I can say as both an educator and the mom of a kid who needs accommodations that so many of my colleagues think it's okay to ignore those documents because they're "stressed." Kids are also stressed, especially those with disabilities whose accommodations are being ignored by their teachers.
I feel like we’re still learning how to navigate the entire process with only one year under our belt since diagnosis. His dad wasn’t diagnosed until the very very end of high school and dealt with a tremendous amount of anxiety because of it; he still HATES the thought of reading or school. I don’t want our sweet, sensitive kid, who doesn’t like to rock the boat, to suffer the same way.
Post by macmars45 on Sept 25, 2023 20:44:23 GMT -5
Wearing an orthotic for my cerebral palsy fucking sucks. Wearing plastic on your foot to just below your knee is fucking uncomfortable. I've had an orthotic since I was 20/21 but haven't worn it much because it's awful. Now that I walk all.day.long 5 days a week it's necessary and I'm not loving it. In fact I hate it.
I wore an orthotic until I was 12/13. I had surgery at 10 and it "fixed' my toe lift and duck walk. I wish I could have surgery again but alas it only worked for 8ish years and worked because my tendons were still growing (or something). It was eight magical years of walking mostly normally. I wish someone had told me it wasn't a miracle fix so I could enjoy those years more. Le sigh
The neighbor at the block party who said she would bring me duck eggs actually swung by with duck eggs! I'm probably more excited about this than I should be.
Thank you! I am a nervous wreck and have so much to do tomorrow!
Good luck - I am sure this is a huge wrench in your plans but hopefully will be a relief to get it over with! I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. I hope everything goes well getting ready today!
I am trying to figure out if I am overreacting because I’m tired and cranky or if my frustration level is appropriate. I understand that schools are desperate for subs and that the quality/experience may vary. I’m trying to give grace, but finding it harder and harder.
For background, I have an 11yo diagnosed with dyslexia at the end of 4th grade. His teachers didn’t suspect it, but we pushed to have him tested due to his struggles with writing prompts, combined with a family history. He had accommodations for dyslexia and dysgraphia last year and started 6th grade (MS) in early August. Unfortunately, he’s had a long term sub with zero experience as his ELAR teacher for the first 6.5 weeks. There’s been little to no communication from the sub, although my DS has expressed frustration about the amount of writing (normal and expected) and lack of grades. His 1st progress report was on 9/15 with a grade of 100, but after grades were finally submitted his grade has dropped to a 70 only seven days later. His accommodations include 50% more time on his daily assignments, but he was asked Friday if he thought he deserved more time than other students when he had spent some of class time talking and he did not receive additional time today. We’ve had a conversation about the talking situation and making good choices, but at the end of the day it shouldn’t matter. My 11yo is acing all of his other classes, but writing is his Achilles heel and he STRUGGLES hard with it. There have been multiple other smaller issues, but I’m trying to balance being patient and understanding with advocating for my child. Complicating matters is the teacher is expected back in early October and I’ve yet to hear back from the dyslexia specialist who I emailed Friday morning to clarify the logistics of 50% more time. I will be polite in whatever email I send, but I am pissed that I’m just now finding out about any issues near the end of the 1st quarter and that he may not have been receiving his accommodations.
TLDR: Would you email the sub to clarify how the accommodations are being handled and leave out all the rest? DS does not want me to mention the comment he made and I would prefer to honor his request.
IEP and 504 accommodations are legally binding. A teacher has no legal authority to remove accommodations or threaten them under any circumstances. I would get in touch with the principal immediately, they’ll want to know as it opens the school up to a lawsuit.
waverly if you are looking for permission to not respond, consider it granted.
You owe them nothing. It sounds like your friendship has long been exclusively on their terms and at their convenience. That's not much of a friendship and it's OK to keep it in the past.
I re-read the email this morning. First sent to my work email even though the other one never changed. I'm not really allowed personal emails to the work email.
It is prof.. email address which is kind of douchy, and then it says "for future correspondence". So I am just supposed to correspond? Future correspondence of what? Nothing apologizing for ghosting me, nothing saying what they actually want. I might be wrong, but I don't think you reach out to someone after 4 years without wanting something, so why don't you lead with that?
waverly if you are looking for permission to not respond, consider it granted.
You owe them nothing. It sounds like your friendship has long been exclusively on their terms and at their convenience. That's not much of a friendship and it's OK to keep it in the past.
I re-read the email this morning. First sent to my work email even though the other one never changed. I'm not really allowed personal emails to the work email.
It is prof.. email address which is kind of douchy, and then it says "for future correspondence". So I am just supposed to correspond? Future correspondence of what? Nothing apologizing for ghosting me, nothing saying what they actually want. I might be wrong, but I don't think you reach out to someone after 4 years without wanting something, so why don't you lead with that?
archiethedragon, that is an interesting theory. Maybe could be a social engineering bid to gather information on me in order to do something to my company......
waverly I might be confused. Is the entirety of the email just "For future correspondence"? Nothing else? And it was sent to an email address that he would not have typically contacted you?
If so, then I agree with archiethedragon that it is more likely a phishing attempt (are you sure that the return email is the correct email for him?) than him actually reaching out to you.
I wouldn't respond regardless, but if it literally just says "for future correspondence" and nothing else, it seems unlikely that it's actually from him.
jinkies , there is another sentence saying, not sure if this is the right email, and this is your friend from X place.
So based on that, I don't 100% think it is phishing. But, we do this whole anti phishing training at work, and our work has been targeted with ransomware before and other things, so I am taking the idea of a scam seriously because there are a couple of red flags. And yes, an email that he wouldn't contact me at before, but it is an email that is findable in a google search.
I was just posting some of the content originally because it came across as arrogant to me. The whole prof (short for professor) in the email address, and he isn't technically a professor; he's a higher ed admin. And the whole, "for future correspondence" was weird/ arrogant to me.
Higher ed administrators don't call themselves professors do they?
waverly, with the added information that email definitely sounds suspicious. I wouldn't have replied anyhow, but I definitely wouldn't reply. IF you want to get in touch with the person that allegedly sent the email, reach out from your personal address to a known email or phone # of theirs.
jinkies , there is another sentence saying, not sure if this is the right email, and this is your friend from X place.
So based on that, I don't 100% think it is phishing. But, we do this whole anti phishing training at work, and our work has been targeted with ransomware before and other things, so I am taking the idea of a scam seriously because there are a couple of red flags. And yes, an email that he wouldn't contact me at before, but it is an email that is findable in a google search.
I was just posting some of the content originally because it came across as arrogant to me. The whole prof (short for professor) in the email address, and he isn't technically a professor; he's a higher ed admin. And the whole, "for future correspondence" was weird/ arrogant to me.
Higher ed administrators don't call themselves professors do they?
Nope. Not even if they teach adjunct as a side hustle. I mean at least in my 25 years in higher ed I haven't seen it LOL