happy 2025!!!

Here is my update. Let’s see I’ll start with school. It still sucks. The girl that ws having a lot of issues FINALLY got moved back to her class at her previous school. The friend that would play with blocks and markers all day got moved to an autism room at a different school right after we came back from winter break. Interesting thing is I know his teacher so I can check in on his progress. She is a very strict teacher and I think he needs someone like that. My teacher is not very strict but I’ll talk about that later. We got 2 new students in place of those 2 who got moved. One is sweet as can be. The other not so much. We have a rule at our school that the kids can’t bring toys to school unless like show and tell but we don’t have that in our room so this new friend who is in 2nd grade had a marble and was rolling it around on the floor when we were waiting to go into our class. Let me explain this whole procedure so everyone understands. So our students come inside the building and then have to wait til a set time to go into the classrooms because the teachers don’t have to be there until a certain time. So the students have to sit in front of their lockers until this time. So I let the student play with the marble while we waited in the hallway but I told him that when it was time to go into the classroom he needed to leave the marble in his backpack and NOT take it into the room. We also talked about him making noises and how it distracted other students when they were trying to do their work. We go into the classroom after the students got their breakfast because they eat in the room. A little while later I hear the marble rolling on his desk so I tell him he needs to go put the marble in his backpack. He starts arguing with me and saying that I won’t let him do anything or have anything to which I tried to explain that it’s a school rule that we can’t bring toys from home. He completely ignores me. I waited a few minutes and he still continued to play with it so I again told him to go put it in his backpack. Still continued to argue with me. After a bit the teacher told him to go put it in his backpack and he finally put it away only to come back with gloves to which we told him he needed to leave those in his backpack. He again starts arguing . I tell him that’s another school rule that we don’t bring those things in the room. He only needs them coming into school, at recess if we go outside and when we leave. He again argues and says I won’t let him do anything. He just puts them in his desk but he did leave them in there so I didn’t fight about it. He continues to make noises to which I told him no thank you. He also took his shoes off to which we told them he needed to keep on his shoes he argued about that. We told him that shoes need to stay on in case of an emergency and just for safety in general. He was not the only student taking off their shoes and it’s a daily struggle to make them keep their shoes on. So later in the day this student did not complete his work so the rule in our room is if you don’t complete work when you are supposed to you have to sit out during free time until the work is completed. We warned him numerous times that if he didn’t complete work he would have to do it during free time. Didn’t seem to faze him at all. So freetime comes and the other kids get to have freetime and we tell him he needs to start doing his work so he can get freetime. He goes over near our calm down corner and lays down claiming he is “tired” and just wants to take a nap. I told  him he needed to return to his seat and get his work done. Eventually he returns to his seat and then calls his mom on his smart watch and is telling her he wants to go home because we are being mean to him. OMG. The teacher wasn’t sure what to do so she called admin which never showed but the BIS guy did and he took the watch from him and told him he would get it back at the end of the day which was like 20 minutes. At then end of the day the watch was returned to him and the teacher and others told him he needed to keep it at home or else if he tried to play on it it would be taken away and mom would have to come get it from the office. I told the teacher she needed to call mom and have a conversation just so she is aware of what is going on. The teacher was like I feel like she already knows what’s going on and just doesn’t care. To which I told her we don’t know what the other school told her or not and to just cover herself so mom can’t come back later and be like “no one ever told me my son was doing this.” It’s just very frustrating for me because as a para I’m not allowed to call parents but my teacher doesn’t like to call and I truly feel like if she did some of these behaviors some of these students have wouldn’t be happening or at least the parent would be aware and couldn’t use it against us later. This is why I really need to find a new job but I truly don’t know what I’m qualified to do. I love animals but most of those jobs are minimum wage so that doesn’t help me and the more higher paying jobs I can’t do because they require a lot of walking and being on your feet which is hard for me to do. I wish I could find a legimate work from home job that paid decent so I can get out of my current job. I’m going to keep looking but it’s just frustrating. Other than that Christmas was good and my birthday wasn’t too bad. I had a meeting yesterday with my principal because of all the days I have missed from being sick either because of kids giving me their sicknesses or my own medical stuff.