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01.11.2006, 6:08 p.m. my new class |
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The kids are EMH (educable mentally handicapped), which means their IQs are somewhere between 50-65, or somewhere around there. They're mentally handicapped, but they can be taught... as opposed to the TMH kids (trainable mentally handicapped) which can only be trained life skills and PMH (profoundly mentally handicapped) which can't be taught much .... They're all in either first or second grade, but academically and emotionally and mentally on about a kindergarten level. Let me tell you, I'll take these kids over "normal" 8th graders any day... you can get a general overview of the kids I used to teach here. Twenty to thirty kids in each class (150 total), five classes a day, a headache and a sore throat every afternoon. There are eight in this class, and they are absolutely the most adorable things you've ever seen. Snotty noses all over the place (one with Down's Syndrome who likes to blow bubbles out her nose), attention spans of fleas, don't know a rectangle from a triangle or how to color in the lines, some you don't understand unless they repeat what they're saying three times, some don't have any speech at all and just grunt and point or wave their arms around. But I've only been there a week and already they love me, want to hug me and hold my hand and I have to wipe their snotty noses so they don't wipe it on me, and if the principal wants me to stay the rest of the year (and she's already pretty much said she does), then I'm there. And of course, getting a paycheck (after two months of not getting one) is nice.
I can't believe - 11.22.2006
Today I feel Everyone else feels
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