Early voting in Texas ends Friday in prep for the election next Tuesday…Exhilarating to coach people who have never voted, through registering, learning the issues and candidates, and finally voting…A retired teacher spent $1,200 on flu treatment because the deductible on the state’s insurance went from $300 to $3,000…After teaching severely emotionally disturbed students at a large public high school for 24 years, I can say absolutely that there should be no guns any where in schools…Speaking of teaching severely emotionally disturbed kids…PL 94-142 in 1975 focused on the rights of all disabled kids to get an appropriate education. That included special programs and campuses that served the severely emotionally disturbed. Day treatment programs consisted of the most troubled students from 8 to 10 districts. The psycho-educational team consisted of a variety of experts from education, psychology, and mental health. Parents were an important part of the team. Family and individual psychotherapy was offered through the school based program. For more, see Children Who Hate and Controls From Within by Fritz Redl and David Wineman, Affective Education for Special Children and Youth by William Morse. Severely disturbed students can make progress in special programs. Those cost money. Nebulous calls for “mental health” need to be met with specific programs for emotionally disturbed students. And those need to be fully funded.
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Early voting in Texas ends Friday in prep for the election next Tuesday…Exhilarating to coach people who have never voted, through registering, learning the issues and candidates, and finally voting…A retired teacher spent $1,200 on flu treatment because the deductible on the state’s insurance went from $300 to $3,000…After teaching severely emotionally disturbed students at a large public high school for 24 years, I can say absolutely that there should be no guns any where in schools…Speaking of teaching severely emotionally disturbed kids…PL 94-142 in 1975 focused on the rights of all disabled kids to get an appropriate education. That included special programs and campuses that served the severely emotionally disturbed. Day treatment programs consisted of the most troubled students from 8 to 10 districts. The psycho-educational team consisted of a variety of experts from education, psychology, and mental health. Parents were an important part of the team. Family and individual psychotherapy was offered through the school based program. For more, see Children Who Hate and Controls From Within by Fritz Redl and David Wineman, Affective Education for Special Children and Youth by William Morse. Severely disturbed students can make progress in special programs. Those cost money. Nebulous calls for “mental health” need to be met with specific programs for emotionally disturbed students. And those need to be fully funded.