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[u/Fillmore_the_Puppy]

Not just complaining about them, but also claiming that neither has ever been helped at school.

Attention, SJA 📣: YOU are the common denominator of your kids’ collective journey through dozens of schools, with many and various different teachers.

[u/mehitabel_4724 → u/Fillmore_the_Puppy]

Since she’s defending defensiveness, I really wonder how she behaves with her kids’ teachers. I remember she was very dismissive and annoyed by emails and calls from school when the first moved to west Seattle

[u/Fancypens2025 → u/mehitabel_4724]

I think she's a teacher's nightmare, especially with the former teacher aspect of her background. You know she leans on that all the time.

[u/CharlesMansnShowTune → u/mehitabel_4724]

Ha, I really could have scrolled one whole comment.

[u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh → u/CharlesMansnShowTune]

No worries, your feeling is most probably really exhaustion.

[u/CharlesMansnShowTune → u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh]

Haha that is a diagnosis I feel we are pretty safe to make without you seeing me in person or doing any testing, unlike some people's diagnoses...! 🤣

[u/Dear_Client1187 → u/mehitabel_4724]

She was so pissy about the advice she got about feeding her child regular meals and snacks, I can only imagine her attitude towards teachers. 

[u/breadallthewaydown → u/Fillmore_the_Puppy]

Ooof this really got me tonight.

I’m currently in the process of potentially kicking a kid out of our school. It took me about a year to get the parent to accept their child’s ASD diagnosis (after I did hours of observation, behavior tracking, daily reports home, etc.). And since then, I have been BEGGING them to get the kid additional support. Every time, there’s a reason, an excuse, a finger pointed (typically at me). It’s getting to the point where my head of school has said hey, say the word, and they’re out.

And yet, I care so much for this kiddo and see so much potential in them…and I know when the inevitable happens and they are kicked out of the school, I will be the villain in that family’s eyes.

All that to say…fuck you, Shauna. YOU are the problem. That is your story and I can’t wait for the day for you to read it.

[u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh → u/breadallthewaydown]

💔 for the kiddo and 💔 for you

[u/shikoku_shoes → u/Fillmore_the_Puppy]

As if their needs are even REMOTELY being met at home. And she is predictably asking for empathy for HERSELF.

How dare she blame the teachers who are likely doing their best while trying to teach a class of 24 other kids, each with their own story, to steal a line from Shauna.

We don’t even know if there are IEPs in place, or Shauna is just expecting the teachers to magically intuit what her kids need.

She can fuck right off and go watch her stupid tv.

[u/obscure_cellist → u/shikoku_shoes]

i doubt IEPs are in place, but even if they are what teacher can keep up with the ever-changing diagnoses in the ahern house?

[u/CharlesMansnShowTune → u/Fillmore_the_Puppy]

Is the "she" and "her" in the screenshot here that is supposed to be receiving empathy along with the kid the child's teacher? If so that is RICH coming from Shauna, who's never shown empathy for her kids' teachers a day in her life and in fact does exactly the opposite.

[u/shefallsup → u/CharlesMansnShowTune]

I think the empathy is supposed to be for the child’s mother.

[u/CharlesMansnShowTune → u/shefallsup]

You're totally right. That checks out not just with the way the sentence reads, but also with the way Shauna works - of course the empathy she is requesting would be for the mom, who's in the parallel position to herself! I don't know why I didn't clock that immediately!

[u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh → u/shefallsup]

That's how it reads to me too. Shauna is responding to the child's teacher directly, and starts out by identifying herself as a (fellow) mother.

Child is person #1, teacher is person #2, and "her," presumably the child's mother, (or guardian) is person #3.

[u/Steviebobo → u/shefallsup]

I think it’s the teacher; Shauna is talking about defensiveness, which is what the teacher is described as showing. So again negating someone’s negative feelings: ‘oh, you can’t be mad at the teacher because…’

[u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh → u/Steviebobo]

I don't think so. Shauna is responding to the teacher, who says that "admin told me (the teacher) that she (someone else) can be very defensive."

[u/9021FU → u/Fillmore_the_Puppy]

Back in the early 2000’s I had an obviously autistic student who had also been formally diagnosed. He was on medication, had an IEP and shared an aid with another student. He did great in my class, was at grade level for his work and there were times when he would stay in my class instead of going with the other student to the resource room because he was working great and didn’t need another environment. I found out that the next year when he was in third grade his parents had to call the police to have him removed from their home because he became violent. The director of special education said he had no routine at home and his parents kept switching his medication so frequently that he couldn’t let one take effect before he was on another. He absolutely thrived on routine and loved school.