Happy New Year!

A new year, a (semi) new position. Since the aide I was covering for has come back from maternity leave, I am now the official school-based sub. Today I had quite an interesting assignment. I was once again filling in for an aide, but this one has a very particular job since she works with the self-contained, really sped kids. There were only five in the room, but it was an exhausting job. I don't know how people can do that everyday. The majority of them were pretty high-functioning and could do basic and even advanced tasks with little to no help, and one girl even helped one of the lowest-functioning students. This student, along with another boy, needed a LOT of assistance. The girl even needed help getting dressed in and out of her gym clothes. It was kind of depressing, but also kind of refreshing at the same time, because their gym class and typing class were integrated with "regular" kids, and they were very social with everyone, so they seemed to have relatively normal lives. I still put the teachers who work with these kinds of students everyday on pedestals, though. It is quite an undertaking.