Part 2
One of the biggest issues she dealt with this year was a locked school gate. She is located in a separate part of the building rather isolated, adjacent to an exit. The way out to the yard during an emergency is through a locked back gate a few feet beyond her exit. It is a new school and still have some hiccups. Anticipating an issue, she told admin that she needed a key for the gate, that it was a fire hazard and dangerous without one. They knowing chose not to give her one anyway. She was very upset. When they had an unannounced emergency drill and her class couldn't exit through the gate to their designated spot on the yard, she was forced to creatively figure out a new path to leave the building and get her Kindergarten class to safety. They ended up being the last class on the field when based upon location, they should have been the first. She was not pleased and wrote a well worded scathing but professional email to her admin.
The next day she had a key and an apology.
My advise, stay vocal about the things that matter and take a deep breathe about the things that don't so much. You need to advocate for yourself as well as your students. Find someone who is of like mindedness and try to tackle some of the issues together. If you can find someone, be your own advocate as best as you can, with strength, kindness and consideration.
I wish you an improved remainder to the school year. Best of luck.
@lovendures thank you for all the advice, from everyone else too. I think I will talk to the other teachers who were exposed because I am sure they will be upset too and it does seems there would be power in numbers. I think our union rep would be helpful too.
Looking for ideas. Do any of you have Summer Solstice traditions? I've never observed the Summer Solstice before, but it seems important this year. I've read about various cultural traditions around the world, and I like the idea of walking barefoot in the dew at dawn and making a bonfire in the evening.
@coyote It’s sort of paganisk, but after this past year, I’m definitely feeling Pagan!
I sometimes wonder if it's all a grand cycle. We get to a level of understanding as one little droplet of consciousness, maybe the level is called 5th level graduation time, and then we come back at the very start as a different droplet of consciousness. What is in the first dimension? If it doesn't have chocolate I'm not sure if I belong there.
It's fun to think about:)
I've gotten a lot wiser just over this single lifetime and I sure wouldn't like going back to being as clueless as I was when I was younger.
The thought of going all the way back to a first-dimension consciousness seems just awful, and frustrating, and pointless-- like Sisyphus, condemned to keep rolling a heavy stone up a hill and always having it roll back down again so he'd have to repeat the attempt ad infinitum. I hope that is not our fate.
I was looking for a good place to post this and thought this thread might be the best place.
Recently, a very cool podcast came to my attention. It came out last fall, and I just finished listening to all 10 episodes and have started on some of the extra material ("Talk Tapes"). It is called The Telepathy Tapes https://thetelepathytapes.com/ and is utterly fascinating.
It is about non-speaking autistic people, mostly children and young adults, who communicate telepathically with a parent, teacher or each other. I was so intrigued by the whole thing and so much of what is discussed resonated deeply with the consciousness discussions we have here. I would love to know if anyone else has listened and what you think about it?
Tagging some of our usual folks (that I can think of at the moment, apologies if I didn't get everyone who might be interested!): @lovendures @jeanne-mayell @deetoo @bluebelle @dannyboy @seaholly @tesseract @baba
@CC21 - I listened to the tapes about a month ago. I agree, they are fascinating. As a Speech Therapist / Audiologist fifty+ years ago, I only came upon one autistic child during my training. As an observer, I could not conceive of any way in which a person could communicate with the 8 year-old sitting in the playpen, although he did respond to his mother’s attention and affection. This subject requires further research since the claims being made and the evidence shown in the tapes would, if true, establish a pathway for the acceptance of, and perhaps training in, the development of telepathy said to be latent in everyone. Segment #6 talks about telepathy among animals and between animals and humans. The story about the elephants honoring the man who saved them is mind-blowing. I hope the tapes are a trigger for serious research on this topic.
@streaminglight I totally agree, it does deserve more research, and I hope that the tapes continue to spark conversation, research and interest to, as you said, establish the acceptance of telepathy and intuition as natural parts of every human being. Training for those of us who have forgotten and raising kids who can keep their natural skills in this!
Yes, the story about the elephants was incredible! I also love hearing the spellers words in the last episode, summarizing, with such straightforward clarity about how it is for them and how it can be for all of us.