Okay....is it just me ....is it just Texas....or has the whole freaking world gone stupid on me?!? Okay....I know part of it is living in Texas. I got a letter from the school earlier this week. Imagine my surprise when it was to notify me they had scheduled a 504 hearing for my daughter. For those of you not familiar with 504 hearings - those are for kids with learning disabilities/issues. Now while I agree these are great options for kids that have true need for them, I have to ask myself what dope someone at that school was smoking when they scheduled one of these hearings from J....my straight A all honors courses student. In the state of Texas, kids that have chronic health conditions (Asthma, diabetes, etc.) are identified as kids in need of 504 plans. Now I'm sure some of those kids really do have need for an alternative plan that makes allowances for getting work in on time, etc. But, again...what dope were they smoking when it came to J?? She's not missed a single school day for asthma this year either. At least at the middle school, they were smart enough to call me before trying to schedule hearings for A & R....which they did. I laughed at that guy too...then refused services. So, I called the special programs director at the school to ask her why the hell they scheduled this hearing for an honor student who is tutoring the kids in the 504 program. She gave me a lame excuse and being the smartass we all know and adore....I offered to help them set up a process to weed out these kids that are just caught in this wormhole ....being identified as needing services and no one there being smart enough to flag them and say WTF were we thinking with this one. Needless to say...haven't heard back from them just yet.
Ahhh yes....justification for more chlorine in the gene pool.
XoXo
Pandora
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