It's been some time since I was on here to vent, babble, and amuse you with my minut rantings...
In the last few weeks my hubs and I have been discussing the option of going home for Christmas...though I want to just because I am not so sure when I will be able to do so again, I am hesitant... My family for the most part for the last 7 years have been understanding to the fact that I am now married to the military and that I am not always going to be around for family events, functions and other family altering things.... So in the grand design I would be able to attend events and be there for the important things in life but my married life just doesn't give me the option or the opportunity to do such things on an every year basis... don't take this as a complaint but take it as a part of life that I am good with.
Some things that are currently weighing on my mind is that I am not understanding to the wishy washiness of my immediate family. In particular my brother...I love my brothers both of them, I have grown up with my one sister in law and the other well lets just say it is a good thing that I am at a distance...(negativity is not one of my favorite traits among friends and family...) So I have always thought my brother to be a strong minded, well at least when we were little he was the little protector over both my brother and I but it seems to be that over time his wife has just chiseled away at the strong man he once was to a spineless person with shallow ideals...I am sure I have changed as well where I used to be walked on and treated badly I am now much stronger and I am ALL about communication.... When on vacation with my brother (the younger of the two) we had to have the chat that if there was anything that he wanted to do all he had to do was say so I didn't mind and if I did mind then I would get over it and the sun would shine tomorrow....LOL I am not about holding a grudge or dangling ones faults over ones head to say, "Hey! Hey You... don't for get that time.....You know what I'm talkin' bout ...Yeah that's it look up before you get egg on YOUR face...." TOTALLY NOT ME!!!!! If I've been taught one thing if anything by my husband then it is that there is nothing worth stewing, there is no reason to hold a grudge over someone when there are so many other, much BIGGER, fish to fry....
Ok so here is another dilemma I'm going through....and I am in need of some much needed advice. I have a daughter who was diagnosed with a slight dyslexia. In her other school in TX they were teaching her how to undo the things she had been doing for so long to compensate and they were showing her how to use new strategies and they new strategies were working.... And now here in the state of Missouri they (meaning the school district) don't think that dyslexia is a true form of a learning disorder...so there is NO HELP from the school, the principal, or teachers to give her guidance they are just popping her from class to class assistance to assistance, none of which is helping and they are just hindering her progression....I have bugged the school to get her the appropriate help and they just keep on saying that the dyslexia isn't an issue....Yeah That's right dyslexia ISN'T an ISSUE!! I am at my whits end...and then to top it all off they have these things called student led conferences... and so in protest I told my Hubs that if he wanted to attend then that was fine but I was not into sitting in the school for over 3 hours to go from class to class to hear about all the things that we were already talking about at home.... case in point our daughter Lauri was always telling us that she couldn't remember her day and so we told her that she needed to start with the first thing she did in the morning to the last thing she did before she came home....LOL so at the dinner table 90% of the time we sit and ask the kids how their day went, what did they do and what did they learn... I don't need the school to make sure I am doing my part as a parent nor do I need them to try to guilt me into attending the student led conference that I don't believe in... Yes I was guilted...not by one teacher but by 2 out of the 3 teachers....It was crazy... so my Hubs attended the event and was there not for the 3 I thought I would be there for but for 4 Hours and 15 Minutes....Yes this is OVER the top....so I asked him what took so long when he got home and he had to say that after the student led conference each parent had the opportunity to talk to the teacher....going from making the conference time from 30 minutes to over an hour for each student....WOW and we cant get assistance for a child who needs help with reading....its a wonder why our schools are so messed up. Ok side bar....I do think that the teachers of America arent doing their jobs, I actually feel they are under paid and under appreciated...our governments State City and Federal limit the funding that is there to make sure our children are well educated and we lessen the standards to compensate for regions that have to cater to diversity. So I DO appreciate and value the teachers the kids have I am more appalled at the State and Federal standards as a whole...
Ok so what do you do with a non responsive school...who do you go to, to get the assistance we need with out having to spend an arm and a leg....let alone a kidney or lung... Is there a service out there that will be a voice of reason as I am for my child.... I sometimes feel as if I am the only one who cares and wants the best for Shaunie, she is a child and other than her parents she needs to have a teacher who is willing to go above and beyond, and see the whole thing through....
As Scarlet O'Hara once said...."After all tomorrow is another Day!" So true So true!!
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