PreK teacher here. The numbers are much worse in my experience. Quite a few children have mild autistic differences and have not been tested. We also have kids who do not meet all the diagnostic criteria for autism, but are obviously exhibiting some autistic traits that interfere with learning and social skills acquisition.

I was a Texas teacher. Sadly, Medicare with my supplement and drug plan gives me MUCH better insurance coverage than my BCBSTX insurance did and at a much better price.

One problem is federal laws that look at race in alternative discipline schools and disciplinary referrals in general. If Joe gets in trouble and is white, he is put into DAEP for a set number of days. He does school work but cannot be in his regular classroom. If Joe is a minority, he might not get the same discipline due to too many students of his race being in DAEP or not enough white students being in DAEP. It all stinks. Punish students based on behavior. Leave race and ethnicity out of everything. That includes no reporting of academic testing by race at all.

If you bring a knife or a gun or any other weapon to a school event, you are anticipating a need for that weapon. He had already thought of a scenario at a track meet where a knife was necessary. Premeditated.

I know a man who was severely injured at work. His wife was told he was brain dead. She would not donate and insisted he was treated agressively. He lived and had a good life. Yes, he had brain damage. Yes, he walked with a limp, but he held and loved his grandchildren.

Exactly. As a former principal, students could be charged with child p if they took pictures of their own body. I never even looked at a suspicious Student's phone. Call the police.

This college educated woman with a BS. In Government and a M.Ed. in Educational Leadership loves Trump. (Some of you already hate me,) I have zero tattoos and my hair is a naturally "enhanced" blonde. My daughter-in-law has lots of cats but absolutely loves Trump. A n overwhelming majority of our friends love Trump and our newest family members are legal brand new citizens who love Trump and freedom. Some women are just crazy. Some men are crazy too! Those men dressing as women seem to be formally educated, but true idiots.

My mom had Parkinsons. Her handwriting got tiny and then she could no longer write at all. Biden's movements in 2019 resembled my mom's movements.

I teach PreK. At this age, children have to be taught to follow the mother/father/teacher. Some kids are not followers. They want to do the opposite of every request. They need to be "left" in order to realize that they need an adult. I leave kids. I peek around the corner or through the window to make sure they are safe and that they decide to follow. Chasing a small child is rarely a good idea unless they are running into danger. Pretend indifference and they magically follow.

I bought a car once for $600. Sold it a year later for $600. Husband was starting a business and needed the truck I drove. Obviously, we could have used $5000.

I am floored by your statement. I am a WASP going back to the founding of our great nation. My hispanic husband's family beat my family to the New World by at least 100 years. I am surrounded by high iq hard-working family. Yes, a few are idiots but that is with all cultures. It is so wrong to lump all people of one culture as all being stupid or arrogant. My husband's father was severely injured in WWII. His great uncle fought for the Union. His brother, niece, and lots of nephews serve or served in the military

I teach PreK. We have pretend doll babies and doll toddlers in all colors. My students love the babies. Color has not once been mentioned. My students are all hispanic either 100% or 50% and most families date back to early Spanish settlements. The baby they love the most is a black baby. Never have they said a color of the baby. I do not mention it either. They do not like the blonde toddler doll. I think it is because he has weird hair. But they do not say the doll is white.

I think the true number is 1 in 4. My personal experience as a PreK teacher is 40% with autism. I teach 10 kids with 3 very much autistic. One other child has mild autism traits. I would not give my child any vaccine. The risk of death or paralysis is not as bad as severe non-verbal autism. I know that view makes me sound like a horrible person, but these children and their families suffer. Children are not officially diagnosed until after at least 3 years of age. Usually they are 5 at diagnosis. So the official numbers lag.

I voted for Carter twice. I was young and stupid.

Kids are not diagnosed until at least 3 years old if severe non-verbal. "Normal" autism might be diagnosed at 5. The numbers are much worse!

I would imagine a lot of people are seeing this photo op and thinking that there is a massive change from only a month ago. Our government sent a message for 4 years that we were run by men and/or women who knew nothing, did nothing and accomplished nothing. This photo op harkens back to the cowboy way of life. We band together and work together to accomplish the impossible. Proud that she is in control! Get it done.

I was in Houston and Katy over Christmas. The traffic was horrible. I told my husband every illegal must be in this area. I know that is false because 75000 are an hour away in Cleveland. Highway 59 north bound out of Houston has holiday type traffic every day for the last two years.

My mother also had dementia with Parkinsons. It was horrible. I moved her into my home for about a year. I could not get or afford private help. I had to work. It was not a choice. My mom was happy in a nursing home. It was near my work. I went every day to feed her supper. We hired a private helper to go dress her everyday. She enjoyed everyone visiting her.

My son was forced by his college to give his information to FEMA. He received a couple of thousand for living expenses due to his dorm and college being shut due to the hurricane. Then, FEMA said he had to pay ALL of the money back. He had prepaid for the dorm room with food plan which was unusable. He had to move and could not work or attend school.

Everyone could have started having coughing fits or sneezing. Or pull a Fred Sanford and fake a heart attack. Stop that nonsense.

On behalf of all women, please have him making daily briefings...televised. He makes me so happy that I live in the USA.

Over 30 years ago, I was a substitute teacher. I had a student who was acting very odd in class. She told me she was crazy. I spoke to her adopted mom who told me the child had been satanically abused before adoption. I was taking a college speech class. I had an A. Our last speech could be on anything but had to be approved. I chose to speak on satanic abuse of children. I had facts from our county. Professor told me I would no longer have an A if I continued with the topic. Best B I ever got. I am so proud of this grade.

Parts of Ruidoso New Mexico burned last year. It is a rebuilding disaster. Building or even remodeling is almost impossible due to codes and inspections during normal times. The fires maybe created toxic soil that screws rebuilding. We did have flash floods which sent the toxic chemical laden water downstream.
Why did it burn? Some people say 99% sure it was arson from Native Americans who were mad. Federal regulations say Native Americans work the fire if on reservation. When fires happen lots of people get paid. Then different rules for federal lands. Some areas are just allowed to burn until it gets to the forest. At that point it is too big and is uncontrollable. It is a federal disaster. No one charged with arson. I was told due to politics and if arson, people get less from insurance. I don't understand but I am not a local. Where I am from there is little federal land and fires are prevented with harvesting trees, putting in fire breaks, controlled burns and common sense.

High schools in Texas can and do have shooting clubs right now. They started about 10 years ago in East Texas. We also have bass fishing clubs that compete on Saturdays. The whole world is not woke.

I wish they could come to my classroom with 3 out of ten children autistic. These are 3 and 4 year olds. I have one other child who could probably be on the spectrum. I would not risk it. I would rather my child risk the diseases which to me are less devastating or even death than being non-verbal severely autistic. The odds are no longer 1 out of 10000 or even the new 1 out of 22 boys. My class would be 1 of 4 girls and 1 out of 3 boys. If I include the probably child, the boys go up to 1 out of 2. If nothing else get them to delay ALL vaccinations. Document a healthy speaking child exists. Then if something bad happens the parents know the cause. Get only shots from late 1950's and spread them out if they just can't say NO. If I were pregnant, I would also say no to ultrasounds and doppler heartbeat checks.