So, it's the last couple weeks of the semester, a time that is, well, one big giant suck. Billions and billions of papers to grade. Going through the hiring process for next semester's interns. The assessment I said I'd grade for another college for some crazy reason. Oh, and plus there's my own coursework--I do have a final project to complete (for my last class ever!).

Yep, the most inconvenient time for this to happen.

Beh had a really great day at daycare today. He was cuddly, actually--so cute when he's like that. He had a great day . . . which makes what the center director told us all the more astoundingly absurd.

Apparently, Nick is too much for them to handle (or for his new teacher to handle), and the center won't allow him to come back unless he has his habilitator with him.

But there's two problems with that: one, he doesn't have a habilitator right now because it's taking a PAINSTAKINGLY LONG TIME for the new company to schedule someone to work with Nick (today they said they were waiting to get our availability, which I gave them three weeks ago), and two, Nick's DDD coordinator decided that Nick's not allowed to have habilitators work with him at his daycare because ABA is supposed to be a home-based service.

So this all pisses me off in a variety of ways. I mean, the daycare knew Nick had autism when they accepted him into their program, and they were perfectly okay with him being there without a habilitator for the first several months he attended. I think he only had his habilitator there with him for a couple of months, and he hasn't had a hab there with him for a couple of months . . . why is it an issue all the sudden? And how illegal is it to kick someone with a disability out of your program because his disability is too much for you to handle? It's total BS.

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out what the heck I'm going to do with Nick as I try to make it through these last couple of weeks. I'm figuring that I can play the role of the benevolent teacher and let my students out early so I can get to Nick's preschool program to pick him up . . . I mean so that my students can work on their final projects. The only thing I can't figure out is next Thursday. I've got to do interviews all day long. Frick. I'd use respite hours, but I have no freakin' respite workers yet (another thing I'm waiting to hear back on, ugh).

Looks like I'm daycare shopping again. If anyone knows of a program that actually likes people who are differently abled, let me know. This so sucks . . . .