High Stakes Jesting, Part 1 - by Lori Miller Fox

Mother and writer Lori Miller Fox is a guest author for the Special Education Law Blog.  Combining her humor and her experiences advocating for her child, Lori has developed a series of jokes, riddles, and columns that will be featured regularly on this site as the High Stakes Jesting Series. 

Click the link below to read her first installation of riddles and jokes:

High Stakes Jesting Jokes:

1. When the school says everything is a team decision, TEAM must stand for teachers, educators, administrators mostly.
2. If Carmen SanDiego was a Special Ed Director, would anyone care where in the world she was?
3. If Little Bo Peep lost her sheep and they had an IEP meeting, they would call it behavior.
4. If neurotypical children get a regular education, do special needs children get an irregular education?
5. Are they called PIE conferences because you need to go to Baker's Square immediately afterward?
6. Why does a request for augmentative communication, get argumentative communication?
7. If a parent advocates at an IEP meeting, and everyone is there to hear it, do they still make a sound?
8. IEP stands for I Eat Pizza.
9. MDC stands for Must Devour Chocolate.
10. If a school can label a child ADD, why can't a parent label a school BADD?

Comments

[Sandy Alperstein]

Very funny, Lori! Great idea to lighten the mood with some humor and laughter! Thanks!

Sandy Alperstein

[Holly Lu]

Dear Lori--
Are you familiar with the rollicking, outrageous group of women called the Mothers from Hell? Whether you know it or not, you are one of us and we'd love to publish your stuff in our Brimstone Bulletin and/or involve in the intricate inner-workings of the organization. You can e-mail me at [email protected]. I am most dearly hoping that you'll join us. Check out our website at www.mothersfromhell2.org.
Till later
Holly Lu

[Trina Montgomery]

Lori, you are hilarious. Thank goodness some of us have a sense of humor. I don't know what I'd do without it!!!