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thoroughly out of gruntles
The school may not need beatings after all. This is good, because beatings are tedious.
What the school DOES need are lessons in appropriate communication. This is not good, because theoretically this is what they're supposed to be teaching my CHILD.
So just after I posted this morning, we got a call from the school nurse. The regular one, sadly. And the school nurse was going to send the child home for lack of a form to give him his eyedrops at school. And lack of the eyedrops - which I hadn't sent, because as far as I knew he didn't /have/ to have them at school if they couldn't do it. (This according to our doctor.)
So I said 'all right, fuck this noise, I am coming down there and we are going to Deal With This Crap Once And For Fucking All.
So I went down there. And I learned some things, astoundingly enough.
First, the whole bloody trip was a result of a miscommunication between the teacher (who thought the eyedrops were needed to be given at school rather than just 'it would have been nice but not if y'all are going to make freakin' paperwork out of it' and the nurse, who thought it was OMGWTF CRUCIAL.
Second, apparently 'we are going to send the kid home on a bus' can, in many cases, mean 'we'll put the kid in a holding pattern for an hour or so whilst you make some phone calls and find backup. we do not expect you to drop everything.' The cases where it can't are generally things like 'your child is bleeding out of every concievable orfice and we're just going to meet you at the ER anyway'. These cases do not bother me. These cases are reasonable.
(I try not to assume reason and logic in cases like this. Most of the time it saves me a step. Apparently not here. Huh.)
The speech therapist is doing a terrible job of communicating his communication system to us. (This fills me with great discomfort.) I saw the actual communication system. It's basically real world objects with print and brailled labels. He knows how to use it. They are using sign with him in the classroom. (What the speech therapist is doing is another question again. Sadly she was unavailable for comment and we'll have to make a separate appointment with her.)
I don't know whether to feel relieved that I don't have to hang beatings on this people or irritated as hell that I wasted my entire morning dealing with this foolishness because they fail at communicating what they're doing. Seriously, I don't know.
Bloody hell.
What the school DOES need are lessons in appropriate communication. This is not good, because theoretically this is what they're supposed to be teaching my CHILD.
So just after I posted this morning, we got a call from the school nurse. The regular one, sadly. And the school nurse was going to send the child home for lack of a form to give him his eyedrops at school. And lack of the eyedrops - which I hadn't sent, because as far as I knew he didn't /have/ to have them at school if they couldn't do it. (This according to our doctor.)
So I said 'all right, fuck this noise, I am coming down there and we are going to Deal With This Crap Once And For Fucking All.
So I went down there. And I learned some things, astoundingly enough.
First, the whole bloody trip was a result of a miscommunication between the teacher (who thought the eyedrops were needed to be given at school rather than just 'it would have been nice but not if y'all are going to make freakin' paperwork out of it' and the nurse, who thought it was OMGWTF CRUCIAL.
Second, apparently 'we are going to send the kid home on a bus' can, in many cases, mean 'we'll put the kid in a holding pattern for an hour or so whilst you make some phone calls and find backup. we do not expect you to drop everything.' The cases where it can't are generally things like 'your child is bleeding out of every concievable orfice and we're just going to meet you at the ER anyway'. These cases do not bother me. These cases are reasonable.
(I try not to assume reason and logic in cases like this. Most of the time it saves me a step. Apparently not here. Huh.)
The speech therapist is doing a terrible job of communicating his communication system to us. (This fills me with great discomfort.) I saw the actual communication system. It's basically real world objects with print and brailled labels. He knows how to use it. They are using sign with him in the classroom. (What the speech therapist is doing is another question again. Sadly she was unavailable for comment and we'll have to make a separate appointment with her.)
I don't know whether to feel relieved that I don't have to hang beatings on this people or irritated as hell that I wasted my entire morning dealing with this foolishness because they fail at communicating what they're doing. Seriously, I don't know.
Bloody hell.