A Grand Ole Day

To make the story of a really crazy day short, yesterday I was scheduled to begin working with a young man who has highly functioning autism and anger problems. When the student, we'll call him John, gets stressed (from new material, new people, tests and quizzes, etc.) he gets violent. Very, very violent. So violent, in fact, that yesterday he spent the entire school day outside with two administrators, a counselor, and a cop to prevent him from hurting anyone. Thankfully, this happened before I was scheduled to meet with him. And it now sounds like he's being moved to a special school.

I figured that would be the craziest thing that happened all day, but in the afternoon I had a student have a Grand Mal seizure in the resource room. Pretty scary stuff as he hit his head very hard and was taking a looooong time coming around. (I was told that the average time from sleep to fully awake is about 15 minutes. He hadn't come around after 30 when the paramedics took him to the hospital.) I'm hoping to get an update today as to how he's doing, poor kid. Here's hoping that today is uneventful!