Three days ago, a 15-yr old boy had an anxiety attack in the school bathroom to hide from his bullies and struggling grades.
His “guidance” counselor pulled him into a room alone and told him to power thru and stop saying he was suicidal for attention even tho he was crying so hard the capillaries in his face were broken. Fun fact: the boy has never been in trouble nor has said this before.
The boy is now in the hospital an hour away from his family due to a real attempt to leave this world.
Because the school would not listen all year nor accommodate his mother’s requests for help and a 504 plan, he felt he had no hope and could not face another day.
The boy is my son. And I’m so angry at the GC in his school I’m frozen. They’re now complying to help with classes and gave him a new counselor.
These new accommodations are not enough. Our story isn’t rare. Schools need to wake up and make some real changes.
social media is so weird like i randomly get this violent urge to no longer be perceived and i just need to deactivate everything before i explode. i wonder if there’s a name for that feeling because i know i’m not alone.
I hate when people try to make me feel bad for hopping from job to job, profession to profession. I will not stay where I’m not loving life. Life is too short to cry all the fkn time
I had a classroom observation while I was teaching 8th grade math. I told my students to behave bc I’m being graded. After the observation, my student with severe ADHD that NEVER pays attention, goes. “Did you get an A? My head hurts from focusing so much” 😂😩❤️
90% of problems in life disappear if you simply eat healthy, lift weights, sleep 8 hours/night, have a job you love, max out your Roth IRA for 40 years, find the right spouse (and have weekly date nights), live in a walkable community, make time to attend your kids' major milesto