Today: a special education teacher who makes $46,000 per year and spends some of her money this week on Tevas.
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/teacher-provo-ut-salary-money-diary
I work in special education. Sometimes it is necessary for some kids to go to a residential placement. This usually only happens if a child is a danger to themselves or others in the house, and really is a last resort option. Residential placements are often places that recently adopted kids go to who have attachment disorders due to trauma. Sometimes kids in the foster care system go to these placements because they simply are not safe in a home environment by either running away and getting involved in human trafficking, or becoming violent to people in the house. For instance, there was a child who had a tendency to kill animals and hurt small children, so his adoptive parents made the very painful decision to send him away.
Residential placements also are at times necessary when a kid has such bad mental health issues that they need the 24/7 supervision because of self-harm. So, suicidal children or self-harmers get sent to residential placements often. These kids usually have a background of psychiatric hospitalizations.
There are also some residential placements that take kids with other disorders like Autism who have become dangerous in the home. For instance, there was an Autistic kid who grew too big and lived with a single mother and sister. They could not control his outbursts and his aide could not be with him 24/7.
These places are never great options, but sometimes they are necessary for safety. It is almost always a very, very emotional and painful decision. There are some residential treatment centers that are better than others. But it is always really hard. The truth is that some families are not able to keep a child with them.
But Provo Canyon is notoriously known as a place of last resort. It is not good now, even after it went under new management in the early 2000s. Physical interventions are used often. The kids I know who have been sent there are really, really difficult cases. Like kids whose behavior was just not safe anywhere. Kids who are too severe at other residential treatment centers get sent to Provo. It's seriously a last resort placement.
Which brings me to Kathy sending Paris there. From what I saw, Paris was just partying a lot. Yeah, she was an unruly teen, but she did not describe any safety risks, serious emotional disturbance, suicide attempts, self-harm, etc. This placement was not even appropriate for Paris, as it focuses on mostly behavior intervention. Like kids with outbursts. Paris, if anything, should h
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I don't know if anyone will see this, but I want to post it as a message of support if you are doubting at any BYU and are here. I went through all 4 years of my undergrad not believing at all, making friends, going to church, etc. (I'm not a sociopath btw it was not easy). I also met at least a few people who mostly didn't or had serious doubts so I was not alone. You are probably not alone, there are people around you who doubt as well, not everyone is buying into the pressure.
https://twitter.com/graham_couch/status/1390309850589143042?s=21
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This is from a lesson on Freemasonry in the Temple Ceremony from the Foundations of the Restoration course at BYU. I highlighted some things I thought were interesting and stood out to me. Let me know what y'all think!
A couple of my friends living at Raintree just got notice that they had to move out of their apartment at raintree by Saturday due to renovations, and they and everyone else I've seen in the 'evicted' (I don't know what other word to use) buildings are angry. It seems redstone residential owns it now. Does anyone know what they should do? I've never heard of something like this happening but it's crazy, my friends got notice half an hour ago and are frantically packing and moving.
I was planning on tubing the provo but i was curious how is the water level right now? Thanks
Debating floating down the Provo River this weekend to try to escape the heat. If any of you have done it, do you have any advice or tips for me? Where do you start/end?
But that was un-Y's.
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