Nngh, Drone, that sucks. Hopefully you'll at least be able to find a lifeboat before it goes entirely under. The demand for pharmacists tends to be pretty high around here, so hopefully the same is true around there and your pharmacist friend can find something new fairly quickly. :S
K~ Self-contained was odd. I'm just making an educated guess, but I'm pretty sure the classroom teacher and the missing TA had an IEP meeting since it was just 1-2 period coverage, rather than the full day. I'm not certified for Special Ed, so I really shouldn't have been in there (and I mean that mostly for the benefit of the TAs to whom I was about as useful as tits on a bull). My mom's been working as a 1-to-1 for a while now, so based on her complaints about subs, I pretty much went in, introduced myself, and asked what the TAs wanted me to do since they know the kids, they know their schedules, and all that jazz. They more or less just told me to relax and enjoy the downtime (which, of course, I couldn't because I was too busy feeling like I should be *doing* something). I talked with the kids a little bit when they were on their break, and I talked with the TAs when they were deliberately not granting attention to a tantrum being thrown in the time out space. I mentioned to one of the TAs that I just felt superfluous, and she told me not to feel too bad, and that's how it usually is when they have a sub. The whole experience was just very strange.
