Dr. Emily King
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I talk a lot with administrators and I have my opinions about where public schools spend their money and things like that, because over time it's going to benefit everyone.
Right.
when we can fully staff our schools and have full access to things.
And just as an aside to answer that, if anyone's thinking like the neurodivergent special ed question, like our systems of how we talk about this in public schools are very much starting
feel outdated with all this new clinical and really cultural lingo we're using now.
But the system still very much is general education and special education.
And then within special education,
We only have 13 ways to identify a child for support in schools, which of course we know there are way more than 13 identification categories for whether that's diagnostically or developmentally.
So it's not a perfect system, but we use what we can to get access to services.
So it's really all the same thing, but we define it differently to get kids what they need.
And this is where my background in mental health comes to the forefront.
Because for me, success for kids I work with involves what lights them up, what is joyful to them, and what makes them feel effective.
Whether that is with a skill they have, whether that is an accomplishment, a goal they're achieving.
What I see when kids get down and sad and bummed about stuff, they feel like crushing overwhelm.
They don't feel effective, right?
And then when kids feel they have no time for fun, I mean, this happens with all our kids, right?
At different times, if big school deadlines are happening or like exam week for even a neurotypical child, when that light is not burning in their face of like, I can't wait to do this thing, that has to be there too.
And so I always think about that balance of effectiveness and joy, which is essentially kind of a work-play balance, what we've called culturally a work-play balance.
But I think when we talk about, quote unquote, work, there's so many things that we've been told are work.
So many things are schooling has conditioned us to think is work or our culture has conditioned us to you have to do this to make the money.
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