Ep 113 Parenting, Schools, and an Open Letter to Kathleen Sibelius

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2012

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Blue Gal has a helluva week being an involved, educated parent, and responds by writing a letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Driftglass speaks to bureaucracies from the perspective of service providers, new ideas, and grant preservation. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.comSupport the show

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0:00.0	This is the podcast for February 3rd, 2012.
0:03.6	It's not safe for work.
0:05.1	Recorded live from just outside the Rince Prebis Straight Talk Express.
0:08.9	It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:20.5	I have a hard week drift class.
0:22.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:24.3	And being a mom all week long in various...
0:28.9	I heard rumors.
0:30.3	Oh, my God.
0:31.4	Yeah.
0:32.1	And I started the week Monday morning at 8.30 with an IEP meeting. and for those of you that don't know what that means, it's individualized education plan for special needs students.
0:46.8	And this was a pretty minor meeting.
0:49.1	One of my children has a little problem saying the letter R, and so she has speech therapy, and anything
0:54.4	you have that's in addition to education falls under special education.
0:59.4	So I had a meeting about that.
1:01.8	Then a bunch of things happened Monday morning after that meeting that led me to write a letter
1:09.6	to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
1:11.6	A funny thing happened on the way to the...
1:14.6	A funny thing happened on the way to a letter to Kathleen Sibelius.
1:17.6	Uh-huh, uh-huh.
1:19.6	Yeah, and why don't you read a little...
1:22.6	I'm going to read my letter to Kathleen Sibelius on the air with, you know, not too much preparation
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