Not My Kid Syndrome, Part 12

[omorka]

Parent conference from Hel today.

Also, had to print out half a ream of stuff for the "campus interventionist," who does not have access to the All-Consuming Database.

I think everyone should have access to the database, actually. It's just so useful . . .

More on the weekend.

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[krystiegoddess.livejournal.com]

What is a "campus interventionist?"

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Your guess is probably almost as good as mine. She's a certified teacher (English, I think, although I'm not 100% sure) who was hired this year to "deliver appropriate services" to students who are identified as being in danger of not passing TAKS in order to graduate. But I don't know exactly what she does, and as far as I can tell, neither does anyone else, possibly including her.

She needed all the TAKS data. Fine, but she didn't tell me what format she wanted it in, and Excel spreadsheets, especially Pivot tables, are huge, so I couldn't send them to her over the network - I had to guess and print hardcopies. It would have been much less resource-intensive for them to give her access to the database and let me teach her how to make the tables, so she could pull up exactly what she wanted. If she's just now identifying the kids who need her help, that means we're three and a half weeks in and she hasn't done anything yet at all.