Fabienne remembers

  #18--My Specials     It takes 3 to Drive a Truck Joy Driving in a truck was on the agenda for three of my special male students one day at lunchtime. Apparently, the supervision of our students was lack this day. Someone left their truck idling in the school parking lot.  My three students decided to get in and see if they could go for a drive.    Dan, Will, and Seth worked together. No one saw them leave.  Dan did the steering. Will got close to the floorboards and worked the brake and Seth worked the gearshift.  They drove out of the parking lot and  managed to get three blocks down the main road.  Then they turned down an alley before they drove through some guys' fence, his garden and into the corner of his garage.  So I am having a quiet stress free lunch til I hear on the all-call intercom "Mrs. MacLeod come to the office immediately."  End of my lunch, oh boy what now!! In the office I see my three students, the p...

 Blog #17 My Specials-----Where are they now? In working over 50 years in Education and Counselling, I remember the joy and sadness I experienced working with "my specials" at a Regina, High School.  I worked two years in a  program for Special Needs students aged 15 to 21.  In my second year, I was in charge of 26  students, a half-time EA, a work experience staff member and three part-time staff doing  lessons in Typing, Music, Foods, Library and Art.  I had 17 students in my class and the other teacher had 9 students. She didn't have a teaching license ,so I was to mentor her.  I will change  the names of my students, but I do wonder how they are doing all these years later.     In my class, I had four students with brain injuries and mobility issues.  All injuries were from accidents. Will got bucked off a horse and hit his head on a rock.  Dan  was hit in a  crosswalk, flew high in the air and on a cement si...