Waking Up

So, I have an OLD alarm clock.  I mean, it's not ancient but it's an old digital clock radio that decides - using whatever magnetic force - which radio station it's going to tune in to from one day to the next. Usually I can tune in to a station way down on the left side of the dial but when I tune it at night - checking to see that every thing is set to go for the 5AM hour - it's to people talking mildly and softly...so much so that I usually end up cranking up the volume in case I don't hear it to wake me up.  Mistake!  It's never a sure thing what is going to wake me up.  The other day it was to a couple of hillbillies singing and playing the spoons (not kidding).  On another morning, I woke up to, I swear, a Spanish speaking "Vincent Price" telling a ghost story (but I don't speak Spanish so for all I know he was telling a love story)...scared the shit out of me though.  This morning?  I woke up to some country bumpkin crooning about his "Pistol-Packing Mama...lay that pistol down."  (Oh boy...I just looked it up!  Guess who sings it?!  Bing Crosby!  Oh boy!)  I gotta get me a new alarm clock.

In BFC news:  The meeting on Friday - parent came with lawyer in tow (who can blame them?).  In the end, the parents demanded that the district hire an aide for JUST their child.  That will mean that for every student in wheelchair (there are 4 of them) there is an aide.  In fact, there are only 8 kids in BFCs class...at all times there will be 5 1/2 adults available.  Now, one of the aides is a nurse that is ONLY for one of the girls in a wheelchair...and one of the 8 students leaves for 2 periods per day to go out to classes with some of our kids because he's a rather "high" multi handicap student.  So really, 4 1/2 adults for 6 kids - 3 of whom are not in wheelchairs.  Unbelievable.  BFC is so inept.  I guess at the end of the meeting when the parents had left, our sped supervisor laid in to BFC and reamed her a new asshole.  She was pissed because BFC let it get this far without voicing that she needed help (Reality:  She can't handle the kids/job).  HH said at the end of the meeting that he didn't blame the parents and if it had been his kid, he would have demanded the district put in writing, their intention to hire an aide.  I'm just hoping that people are keeping track of this shit cause I'm telling you, we haven't seen the last issue in BFCs classroom.

Okay - well, I best head out...I need to get in my car so I can turn on some music and get this this stupid pistol-packing mama song out of my head!  UGH!  Later!