The continuing elf story
@GardenGerty (169406)
United States
December 11, 2019 7:11am CST
This discussion refers to my previous post
So, I walked the student to his car. I SAW his mom go through the backpack, which I had already checked as well.
Later that night she said he was having huge fits and she "found" one of his elves in his backpack. (I believe she fooled him. He has several elves.There was nothing in that bag when I gave it to her after school.)
At school on Tuesday the boy with the locker next to my student found a surprise elf in his backpack.
He had not had homework and had left his bag in his car all night, so he did not look in it.
Evidently my student was so wound up when he put his elf away that he put it in the wrong locker and back pack. He tends not to pay attention at times.
I am sure this is the truth because the mom of the student who found it is also a para and she knew the elf was missing and would have let us know.
Mrs. F. who only is with this student when Jessica is at lunch lets him get his toys out often, in spite of what she has been asked. She goes with him to get them, but did not go with him to put him away.
Grrrr. I wish they would not do this. It made a long evening for several people.
On the other hand, I am glad it was not someone being mean.
One student I work with is high functioning, but autistic. He brings soft toys in his back pack every day. He can have them on the bus, but puts them away when...
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@LadyDuck (502198)
• Italy
12 Dec 19
@GardenGerty I am glad, he was surely stressed.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
12 Dec 19
@LadyDuck Yes, and he stresses easily.
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
11 Dec 19
Okay, it is now clear who made the joke, waheehee.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
12 Dec 19
You were more on track than the rest of us. The student tricked himself without knowing it.
@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
12 Dec 19
@GardenGerty waheehee, that's a lesson to be learned. My brother's son is autistic and he falls into the description of your ward. It is easy to know his moves based on my experience with my nephew.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
14 Dec 19
This is the battle we are fighting. We had it with a girl a few years back, who at times would have as many as fifty "my Little Ponies" in her back pack. Jessica will be gone on Monday, but the note she left for the sub cautions against getting home toys out for a break. I personally do not like "breaks" although we do find things to do for an incentive when he has worked on three things. Right now we are making a paper cone into a Christmas tree.
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@rebelann (117199)
• El Paso, Texas
14 Dec 19
I can't imagine how hard it must be to work with challenged children @GardenGerty
@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
13 Dec 19
I'm glad to hear the Elf showed up.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
14 Dec 19
Yes. I am glad it was his own fault that it was misplaced. I did not want to find that people were picking on him.
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
12 Dec 19
Maybe, maybe not. Not really orders as such, and she wanted to reward him for hard work. He is hard to resist. I would like to see him use school items for breaks.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
11 Dec 19
That is good news, it was just misplaced.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
12 Dec 19
Yes, it was. Jessica says she is going to start hiding the elves or other backpack toys until the end of the day because that other staff member uses them as a reward too much and it is causing problems.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Dec 19
Mystery solved and all's well that ends well?
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
12 Dec 19
Yes. I would like to transition him to other things during the school day.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Dec 19
Very glad it was found and just an accident.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
12 Dec 19
And he understands that he did it himself. The kid where the elf was would never have taken it.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
12 Dec 19
This student has lots of elves, or at least three. He said two were missing, the staff member said that there was only one in his bag. The back packs are not similar, but this is a child with some impulsive disorders and he does not always look at the whole picture. That is how he ended up opening the wrong locker.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
14 Dec 19
Yes. He was stressing a lot about it.
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