Don't Want To Jinx Anything

I'm afraid to even talk about it for fear that something goes wrong again. The yard is considerably dry in comparison to last Thursday but who knows. The delivery, however, is supposed to happen today between 9:00 and 10:30. The original electrician is out of town so Jim had to do some scrambling to get someone else. Thankfully, Frank came though. I'll do my best to stay occupied and not perseverate on my ring camera trying to see what's happening. One good thing is that my IEP meeting is at 9:15 so I'll be busy for about a 1/2 hour. Please, please, please let this happen today. If it doesn't I don't know what how long we're going to have to wait. 

I looked at my caseload for next year (I'd avoided it) and I'll just say, it could be worse. I have one student who is marked as having "highly involved parents" but that can usually work for me because I'm very good at communication. I'll have 22 kids on my caseload (up from the 12 I currently have; scratch that, 13; I had an addition yesterday. More on that in a minute) and looking at the 9 freshman that are being added (I'm losing none as I have no seniors and the sophomore who's going to the career center next year is going 1/2 days) yowza! I think there was one kid who has 5 goals. Reading, writing, math, executive functioning, self-regulation, oh, and a speech goal. I mean what the fuck!? How do you provide direct instruction for all of that with time to do anything else with any other kid. It's going to be a shit show. But, this too shall pass. 

So the kid who was added to my caseload yesterday: He's a junior who's been in about 6 different districts including, Loveland, Lebanon, Little Miami, Goshen, Covington and he's been at Kings before. He's apparently a complete and total asshole who refuses to do anything, is obsessed with his phone and due to behavior he's been expelled twice from other schools. Not sure why anyone thinks a typical public school is the place for him. He's living with his grandparents though he does have a good relationship with his mother but she does not discipline him. His father is not steady in the picture and has been very verbally abusive to this kid. Parents have never been married. I'm not sure why he's living with his grandparents but it doesn't seem like mom lost custody. He enrolled at Kings on 2/24 and has yet to show up. Oh, and his IEP is apparently expired. We'll see. I'm not sure how many credits he even has and what the point of him being here is except to not be truant. This should be fun. 

Dinner tonight: I'm going to do something with pork chops I think. Nothing too exciting. 

And that's all I've got. Wish my pool luck today. Later!