“Good morning” and “Welcome” from Lady Radley (aka Handbaglady) to all
MM Linkers on this Autumn morning. I don’t know where September has
gone, as here we are on my last weekend as Royal Setter. I will
really miss the weekly challenge of setting new link words. May I
wish my successor my very best wishes for October and I sincerely hope
they have as much fun and enjoyment as I’ve had over the past four
weeks.
A few weeks ago, I reported on AB my working with children with
Special Needs and things were going well until the Government decreed
that all Special Needs children should be integrated into main stream
schools. I had been recruited by an agency called “Learning Support”
that was disbanded and we all had to re-apply for our old jobs (but
now operating through the main schools system). Economically, it was
obviously cheaper for a school to employ an unqualified person and
plough the spare cash back into the school budget. Fortunately, I
secured a position in a comprehensive school working with hearing and
visually impaired students. I really loved the challenge --
especially working with the visually impaired students. However, at
the end of the academic year (when several of my pupils left) there
were not enough new students to justify my job -- so once again I was
out of a job.