When did this law come about? I worked in a law office in New York for three years and all the permanent staff got paid once a month.[/quote]
I think it’s a law in some states. Beyond that it may just be convention. In the US I’ve always had either biweekly or semimonthly pay.
I do wish that if payday falls on a weekend that I’d get my pay the Friday before rather than the Monday after. Is that too much to ask?
Dear Tomhill,
I am lazy.
With Love,
-Frost
P.S. When I say mental disorder, I mean freakin crazy.
P.P.S. In Illinois it is every 2 weeks.
[quote=“TomHill”][quote=“alidarbac”][quote=“TomHill”]2. I wish one time I could work at a school that didn’t have that one kid with a mental disorder.
Thats a bit of a sad thing that you wrote there. Special needs kids are still kids. [/quote]
I’m completely with Frost on that one. Special needs kids are kids with special needs that are almost never being met by a buxiban. That one messed-up kid often needs one-on-one time with a specialist and/or medication, not faxie times two.[/quote]
We have two terms here: Special needs, and mental disorder.
Alidarbac, many special needs children can be included in any classroom. In some cases the teacher should be trained or prepared for the inclusion of the child, but in general, inclusion should be the way to go.
‘Mental disorder,’ sounds like discrimination. I have an issue with discrimination. The op is likely to be talking about a child with challenging behaviour.
Now bask in my lovely English usage.[/quote]
As ImaniOU said in an earlier post, most such children are placed in buxibans as an alternative to daycare. Since many buxiban owners (note that I say MANY, rather than ALL) care only about the bottom line, they accept the child without making allowances for his or her condition.
The teachers, trained or untrained, are given no allowances, such as an aide for the child or smaller class sizes.
What these buxiban owners don’t realize is that this causes the overall quality of the education of the rest of the kids in the class to go down. How can it not, when one child is lagging far behind the class, or causes constant disruptions to the class? I’ve been there, and yes, I have the training. The fact of the matter is, one such child changes the entire dynamic of the class (particularly if we’re talking about ADHD or ADD), and usually not for the better, regardless of the teacher’s ability or the material being taught. You are right, TomHill, special needs children can be included in any classroom, but a means to meet those special needs must be present.
Also consider the fact that many parents are in denial about their children’s conditions. They write them off as “active” (while continuing to feed them a diet of 75% sugar) or go off the deep end and berate them for their stupidity. Anything is better than the lost face that accompanies a child who is anything other than mainstream. When I first began teaching in Taiwan, I tried to start a class for children with special needs (slower curriculum, more Montessori-style learning), but no parents were interested, and one even took her child out of the buxiban because we dared to mention that he might benefit from a “different style of learning”.
Well, that concludes my rant.
For now.
I went to the Ren Ai hospital to get some medicine. I saw this on the counter near the cashiers.
Love that English!