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n. - A hazard on a golf course; A fortification of earth; A large container for storing fuel v. - Hit a golf ball into a hazard; Transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse; Fill with coal or oil.

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There is more in Benedict's Rule than meets the eye. Based on the rules of life of John Cassian and Saint Basil, Benedict invites us to go further back to the scriptural basis of all Christian and monastic living and pursue our spiritual journey by the guidance of the Gospel.

This book of reflections on the tools for good living is intended to be read very slowly, one section at a time. In addition to communicating reflections on each verse of chapter 4, Casey invites readers to:

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Michael Casey, OCSO, is a monk of Tarrawarra Abbey (Australia). He holds a degree in Scripture at Leuven and a doctorate from Melbourne College of Divinity for a study of desire for God in the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux. In recent decades he has been engaged in exploring different aspects of monastic spirituality, writing, and giving conferences throughout the English-speaking monastic world. His books include The Road to Eternal Life: Reflections on the Prologue of Benedict's Rule (Liturgical Press, 2011)

Michael Casey brings a deep lived knowledge of the monastic tradition to this splendid set of reflections on Benedict's Rule. He manages to marry faith commitment to pastoral common sense in such a manner that monks and laity as well can find answers to that request made to the old desert dwellers: Give me a good word. Casey, in fact, gives us many good words.
Lawrence S. Cunningham, John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology (Emeritus), The University of Notre Dame

Ancient monastic authors often stressed their wish to be of use to readers. Like them, Michael Casey has written a useful volume, a volume to live by. Drawing on a wealth of sources, and reading deeply in the book of experience, he shows what a vast perspective is indicated in the `little Rule' of Benedict, what fullness of life is in store for those who follow it with courage and coherence.
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Seventy-Four Tools for Good Living is Michael Casey's ingenious way of rendering the wisdom of St. Benedict for our times. As a master teacher, he weaves together sources from the monastic tradition and contemporary insights through these seventy-four tools. If this is not his best book, it is certainly his most readable and gracious offering to his students and readers. This is a book that comes from his personal lectio and living the monastic way of life in Australia. It is also a book I can use for lectio and living my monastic way of life here in Indiana. Lay contemplatives, especially oblates, will find this a cut above the books published in most bibliographies on monastic spirituality. This book matters!
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In my regular university course on the Rule of St. Benedict as a mirror to present-day culture there is close reading of some chapters of the Rule. To my shame I tended to neglect chapter four a bit. Michael Casey's deep reflections in this remarkable book are nourished by a half century of monastic reading and deep psychological and existential insight. I can now draw from nearly 300 pages of wisdom on the fourth chapter of Benedict's Rule. Just to quote from Fr. Michael's preface: "There is much more in Benedict's Rule than meets the superficial eye."
Wil Derkse, Andreas van Melsen Chair for Science, Society and Worldviews (retired), Catholic Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

This book is not an exegetical study; one goes elsewhere for such. Rather this is a wisdom text, exploring each tool in a search to comprehend these pithy sayings for good living. . . . It is his own lived experience that brightens up the text. Casey's years of cenobitic living, coupled with his perceptive eye and peppered wit give life to the seventy-four tools.
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"The incomparable Casey has done it again. He seems to deliberately choose the most unlikely sections of the Rule of Benedict and make them into something appealing, even compelling, for the modern reader."
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making a bad situation worse part 2

it is long i know ,but it is true
    Excuse please my bad spelling, my training is in hydroliques systems for heavy machinerie , not unfortunately,  English Litt.
                    Sorry for the lenght of it but i am getting it off my chest . all of it, the sex and even the parts that make me look like a perfect basterd
                  On leaving home  i was a mess i had things to set before leaving , I called the airline to book myself on a later flight , there was one at 1;25 pm , that was fine it is a one hour flight and i was not expected early.
                     I the called my friend Gerry , we were un the same unit (Special Forces) we are closer than brothers. He owns an investigation firm , he does not handle infidelity and divorce cases , but he could at least recommend someone.
                     I walked in his office , he said i looked like shit , i said i feel like it . I need the services on a detective . He said by your  looks it is not the business it must be Bernie . I gave him the short version of what was going on .  He was sorry and suprised .
                      He said he was not to busy and as a favor to me he would handle the case . He then pulled a piece of paper for me to read and sign.
                       It was a release form giving them permission to install vodeo and sound equipment in my house . tap the phone of the aforementionned person, fallow her, gather any and all information ,video pictures and sound relevent to the case.
                I signed and asked why my home ?  He sais wifes how cheats when the husband is not home  like doing it at home the feel better , saver and there are no credit card trail to fallow after the fact , like motel rooms rental ect. I mentionned then to him that since we both work we only have cells, no home phone .
                  He then asked if i had checked her e=mail on the computer at home , i said i did not have her password ,i never had before reasons to do that
                   He called in a girl  to his office, --  "This is Carole , my hacker "
                      After asking if i could access my work computer from home and the road when i was out of of town, She asked for my passwords and ip'S  then she had me acces my computer at work and make a folder which she protected with a password  and that  she would have all my fife's e-mail dumped in there ,she was not worried about passwords . To know that there are poeple like that scares me sometimes.
                He then called a guy in and gave him my address and told what equipment to intall , basement playroom , upstairs living room and main bedroom  He knew my house as well as i did he been there often with his wife or alone with  for poker . He mentionned we would have video even if the lights were out .
                  At work he said he had a girl worked  at the same compagny as my wife  who worked for him part time he would have her nose around , "don't worry he said she is discret or she would not work for me."
                    I arrange to see him first thing on coming back fryday and left.
                           One more stop before my flight i had time , my doctor's office for a blood test, i did not know whom she was screwing and under what conditions , Did she used protection ???
                     I was to be sorry later to have given permission for the videos at home . I saw thing on the dvd they had made that no man should see his wife doing. Some thing are better left to the imagination.
                                At around 5 that afternoon , she called me a my hotel , wanted to know if i had cooled off since this morning and tought about our conversation.
            -  " It was hard to think about anything else "
            -  "  did you change your mind ?? "
            -   " I am still not ok with you screwing around"
            -    " One guy once in a while is not screwing around you know"
The she came back
              -  "Do you forbid it??"
              - " We forbid a child not an adult Bernie , but i love you and i would like you to change your mind and not do this"
               - I love you to please don't ever doubt that Dennis"
                - If i forbid it ,will it change your mind ??"
 After a long pose
                 -" I am not, sure probably not "
                         Then she said she was preparing her supper and loved me was going to  miss me till fryday kisses and was gone .
                          I was not hungry . i whent down to the bar and had a couple beers , i don't drink mutch .
                     At around 8Hrs that evenig the time we usually call each other if i am out of town, I decided to gave her a ring , her phone was turned off . again at 9 and 10;30.  I hookr=ed up ma portable to check my messages at work . I was amazed at how fast Gerry's people had worked. there was a bunch of messages in that folder we had created in the morning. I checked mine first and openend thi folder , it was mostly messages from mutual friends and her sister. but there were a few from a" Loulou", il was the Marie Louise she had talked about .
       The first one 2 weeks ago,
                 She was asking my wife if she had enjoyed (Robert) and was he hot ?
                  My wife had anwered that it was pleasant but not great . but was thrilled by the fact that she could still conquer and please men . She thanked her for the advice to practice her ass with a dildo, it had hardly hurt the first time he penetrated her.She was surprised she had come so hard , she did not think women came being ass fucked.    ( i did not know she own a Dildo)
          Second message
                  She was offering my wife (une partie de jambes en l'air) with 3 or 4 guys and her
                        My wife wrote the she was not interested in that sort of things and forget it.
                 Also that she could not bring me to accept her decision..
          Third message.
                    She told my wife not to worry it had taken her 6 mounths to convince her husband ,She to pick the moment, she had but her husband( devant le fait accomplie )while they were in bed together by saying she was going to do it period .  He had gotten mad to treathening divorce and everything , but came around after a week . Not to worry it would be the same with me
                 If Bernie was not interested in her and a few guys together, but would like to experiment  a woman, she would be glad to do the initiation.
                    Bernie wrote back this morning , saying she had fallowed her advice , but was worried at my reaction.
                  As for experiencing a woman , she  was not into that but ended with ( we never know about the future , kisses en hugs it was a nice offer .)

                 Forth message
                      Marie Louise said , Not to worry i would get over it soon , and thanks for keeping my hopes up . Kisses
                             That was it
                   From her sister nothing interesting , except one intriguing message
                     She said , Bernie , i will do what you ask this time only . I don't like it and don't like what you are doing to Dennis he is a nice guy and does not deserve this .  Re -think what you are about to do  .Marielle
                     No mention of what it is Bernie wanted her to do for her.
                    It was midnight i tryed her phone again it was still off  i took a shawer and tried to sleep had a meeting next day a 10 am.
                              Next morning she called me saying she had  cone to see a movie shut off her phone during the movie and forgot to turn it on again. Strange, she hated movies and preferred renting the dvd's when they came out.
                             I concluded my business next day and tought about taking an evening flight home . but decided , i had given her till friday i will respect that .
                               She called me a little before 8 pm asked about my day ans deal i said i would conclude it the next morning and take an afternoon flight and be home for supper, She said she could not wait for me to get home she missed me so much.
               We did not mention our problem  we made small talk for a while and i heard the doorbell . she said it is Marielle she will spend the evening with me i feel lonely i miss you . we said bye and left her to her sister if it was her, I knew that her sister a nurse works afternoon shift but she could be on a day off .
               i tried her phone later , it was not off but she did not pick-up  i re-tried untill 12;30 'Am

             I took the 6 am flight and upon arriving went straith to Gerry's office He said it is not pretty it is bad you want to see are you sure ??
              She is been out before he told me, a few afternoons she had taken afternoons off work only to come back in time to lock-up for the night and take her messages this had been going out for 3 weks prior from what they had found out. He had the motel were they had been .
              Now he said the video from home it will not be easy for you , don't fly off the handles on me .
               He started the DVD , in our bedroom they were doing 69 , she on top and sucking his member like there was no tomorrow deep troathing  him of all things i wanted to puke . She was moaning event with his cock in her mouth and girating her hips rubbing her cunt in his face as he was licking and sucking for all he was worth. The moaning was something else. from both of them.
               They finally both came , she took his load in her mouth , (something she never done for me )  You could even see her swallow it .   As they got up afeter a while, i recognized the guy , shit it was her Boss's huband  Robert!   His wife is a stunner, i have to admit ,better looking than my wife except maybe for her legs.
                     He said you are getting good, you took it all in your throat  She laughed saying that she had gotten a small dildo and practiced taking it down her throat . After a while he was hard again with her help caressing  him , it had not taken much to get him soft just a blow job.
                      He asked if she had douched her ass , she said sure .He went to the foot of the bed and put two pillows on top of it and she came and lay on top of the pillows with her stomach on the bed and her legs ob the floor, He started massaging her cunt while she was telling him to please squeeze it and rub hard He took a jar from the dresser and started libing heer ass with one hand while still massaging her cunt with the other . She asked him to take the bigger dildo on the dresser and put it in her cunt , and go in    her ass easy as they had only done it a few times.
                  He lined up after inserting the dildo in her cunt and started pushing in , he got about halfway in when she pushed back and took it all in, letting out more a growl than a moan  . She started to move her hips then saying go go  it is good ram me (Defonce moi) i want it all in,  fuck your (saloppe)  i was mesmirized   in shock  , he was slapping her ass and at the same time as he was ramming her hard. She was screaming, not moaning , i am surprised the neighbors did not ear even if they are not very close.
                    She was screaming yes , yes oui .oui punish your saloppe as you take her ass  he was giving her some pretty hard slaps we heard the noise .
                          I will come ,please  take and squeeze my tits . he leaned on her back and reached around to grab her tits  She came a few seconds later so did he, they remained that way a while and finally he pulled out and give her a few slaps on the ass not love taps but hard slaps she wiggled  her ass saying Yes your saloppe loves that punish her a bit , he did .
                  He went to the bathroom to clean up i guess and brought her two towels to clean herself  She even had some cum on her face from sucking him before.
                         They got on the bed cuddling and caressing each other he said he was spent  She still had the dildo in her cunt and he was playing with it she seemed to enjoy it by her moaning .
                           She sucked him hard again and he took her in the cunt doggy style , it did not take him or her to come she did not seem to come very hard this time .
                          They kissed hard and he said he had to go before the bars closed and get home , his wife tought he was out with the boys.
                          He slap her ass again while she wiggled ans moaned to hell and back
                                He asked if she was ready for tomorrow , she sai she was not sure about two guys at once . she would phone him tomorrow and let him know. He told her a woman could easily take two guys it was not worse than her dildo in her cunt and his cock in her ass  . She said he was probably right .
                    He had finished dressing and left
                               She started crying saying over and over ;"""what have i become  ??

                                    This was Wednesday night .
                     Thursday night was worse .
                                   It will be in part 3 if you bear with me
                                             It is not easy re-living this in a way

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Redefining "Millennial": TV host, Author & Transgender Rights Advocate Janet Mock

By Amy Elisa Jackson

Millennials have been dubbed the "Me Me Me generation." TIME magazine's Joel Stein described those born between 1979 and 1996 as "entitled and selfish," a swift blow to the cohort of Mark Zuckerberg, Malala Yousafzai — hell, even Beyoncé! But these weren't simply observations of Instagram-happy 20-somethings — he had facts. Stein wrote, "The incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as for the generation that's now 65 or older, according to the National Institutes of Health."

Overconfident or not, Stein got it right when he concluded: "Millennials could be a great force for positive change."

Case in point: Janet Mock.

The author of "Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More" challenges convention as a pop-culture-loving, selfie-taking, Black Lives Matter-protesting transgender rights activist. Mock, 32, uses her platform on MSNBC's So POPular digital series to shine a light on the stories that matter to her contemporaries and those with no voice.

"For Millennials, what's really important for us is the idea of being able to show up fully as we are and do what we want to do," said Mock. "There's no separation between professional and personal. Part of our success is being able to go to a job and tweet ourselves twerking on Vine, go back to that job and not be checked on that. Transparency is really integral."

However, being a Millennial isn't just about social media moments — Mock insists it’s about authenticity. "We don't want to be burdened by labels," she said.

Mock has made a career of being authentic and living outside of labels. In 2011, the Hawaii native shared a truth that only her close friends a family knew: She was born a boy. "It used to pain me to hear my birth name, a heartbreaking insult classroom bullies would shout to get a rise out of me. But talking and writing about my experiences have helped me finally accept the past and celebrate the fact that I was once a big dreamer who happened to be born a boy named Charles," she wrote in Marie Claire.

Ever since publishing her truth, Mock has been a beacon of hope and inspiration for the LGBTQA community — and proof that being "convinced of [her] own greatness," as Stein wrote in TIME, is far from a bad thing. In fact, it has been life-changing.

Over the past four years, Mock has become a New York Times bestselling author, honored by the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, launched #GirlsLikeUs, a movement that encourages trans women to live visibly, and she has led a revolution in public dialogue around the lives of transgender people, particularly women of color. She was featured in the HBO documentary "The Out List" and is BFFs with Oprah Winfrey. Oh, and she's engaged to the love of her life, Aaron Tredwell.

Bam! Millennials (and women!) can have it all.

On a hot and sunny day in Los Angeles, Levo sat down with Mock to talk about how she transformed her passions into a very successful profession, feeling the pressure to become a mom, and how she plans to change the world.

Levo: You have had an amazing year. What’s been the best part of the ride so far?
Janet Mock: Having grown up in the identities that I grew up in — being trans, being brown, being a different kind of woman—I was taught to be ashamed, to be silent about my identities. So to have opened up in such a public way about my story, I was surprised to be able to step more fully into my power, into the things that I wanted to do in life. To be able to do that in the span that I’ve been able to do in the last four years has been surreal but also really fulfilling and affirming.

How have you dealt with transitioning from a magazine editor, working behind the scenes, to a national advocate and TV host?

JM: For so long I thought that the only way to tell stories was to do so from a slant of, “I’m not putting myself in this story.” I was working at at the time, and I found myself kind of bored. I felt unchallenged; the stories didn’t move me.

Was that an "aha" moment?

JM: I have one of the most compelling and remarkable stories, in a sense, and I was holding that in and hiding behind very famous people’s stories. Then, it was like that Toni Morrison quote, "If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." I knew that there was a story inside of me that I needed to tell.

Now that you have found your voice and platform, it has become your biggest weapon. You hosted Melissa Harris-Perry's show and reported on trans women who have been killed. Is that your passion?

JM: My writing and my media work is my form of advocacy. I’m always trying to see how can I elevate and shine a light on stories that are not being reported on in the mainstream media.

Talk to me about #GirlsLikeUs.

JM: I started the social media hashtag #GirlsLikeUs to empower trans women to be bold in their identities and to broadcast their lives and to connect with one another. I would love to have a weekend getaway for trans girls where I can connect them to mentors, to other living examples of possibility of what their lives could look like, and have them be in sisterhood and fellowship with one another.

Did you have mentors who helped you along the way?

JM: For so long in my life I’ve had to do things on my own. I was raised that you are supposed to make a way for yourself. You work twice has hard to be twice as good to have any kind of access or semblance of success. For me, that didn’t often include asking people for help.

When you were on CNN and Piers Morgan attacked you on live TV, how did you cope?

JM: That was one of my biggest professional setbacks. But what I learned from that moment was when I have a feeling that something is not right, I should state it. I should never to try to make things work. It doesn’t allow you to feel comfortable. You find yourself performing for other people, to appease people. So what I learned is to be very exacting about what I want in any situation.

That episode would have caused many to crumble. Was there ever a moment you doubted whether being a public figure was worth it?

JM: There’s never a moment that I want to quit. Every day is a struggle. I think when you live so much of your life in the public eye, there is a sense of wanting to put up the brave face that everything is going well. What does help me through a lot of those points of friction or frustration or irritation is self-care.

How do you practice self-care?

JM: You have to be able to go into spaces and show up empty. I’m glad I have a home where I can show up empty. I have a partner and a dog who take me when I’m empty and have nothing to give, who don’t expect anything from me. That helps me when I am going through the struggle of having to carry the banner at times, but also knowing that there are a lot of other people doing this work too.

You are now engaged to your longtime love, Aaron Tredwell. Are you feeling the pressure to get married and have kids like all the other Millennials out there?

JM: Everyone that I grew up with seems to be having the same kind of Facebook timeline. Thirty two years old, everyone is already married. There is pressure to fit into what adulthood looks like, especially in your early thirties. But, I don’t feel the pressure necessarily to have kids. I have never felt the pressure of getting married or having a wedding but I’m glad to be getting married to Aaron. We go back and forth on kids—if that’s something that we want in our lives. I think that we’re not exactly where we want to be. There’s so many dreams and visions that we’re trying to make into reality, so for me that’s not something that we feel pressured toward. But I am excited to get married.

What’s coming up next for you?

JM: Now I’m creating a documentary with that same team of people called The Trans List for HBO, interviewing a lot of trans-luminaries, legends, and artists. I have a live event with Oprah called "Super Soul Sessions" in Los Angeles for OWN Network. I am opening for Deepak Chopra, and my speech will be largely about authenticity and embracing one’s otherness. I am also co-anchoring and co-hosting coverage of MSNBC’s Global Citizens Festival Concert where the Queen, Beyoncé, is headlining. I get to be steps away from Queen Bey — that's huge.

Busy, busy busy.

JM: Finally, I’m working on my next memoir which will largely concentrate on what was it like to find myself and discover myself in my early twenties. It’s a snap shot of those five years when I was figuring it all out, before I came out, before I found my voice and purpose. It’s like the prelude to success. What was it like to figure that all out as a young person?

I can’t wait to read that one. How perfect for Levo Millennials.

JM: I've always said that authenticity is the first pathway to any kind of success. To me it's my yellow brick road. Only by living my truth have I been able to achieve any kind of semblance of the dream.

Check out the details of Janet's journey and watch her full Office Hours interview video on her Levo 100 Profile

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You may not think that day to day life is worth recording or perhaps you think you are too busy to find the time to write journal entries. We want to tell you that this is valuable information that grows in importance over time.

Why is a Journal Important?

Remember the scene in Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town in which the main character Emily goes back in time to see her twelve year old self at home with her parents for one day? It is a poignant scene of an adult woman seeing herself as a twelve year old girl with her parents. She notices how young everyone is and all the details in her childhood home. She sees everything with fresh eyes, from a different perspective provided by the passage of time. What was absolutely ordinary and common years ago suddenly takes on a new meaning and significance for her. Your parent journal can do the same for you.

How We Started

We began our journal when our son started special education in preschool. Initially we just recorded details of phone calls and letters related to school, but as time went by we started recording the details of everyday life: what foods our son ate and his reactions to them, his activities, and how he slept. At an early age he had food allergies, so keeping a journal was essential to pinpoint his sensitivities to certain foods.

The journal evolved as he started elementary school, with details about his difficulties learning to read and write. We recorded our impressions of how schoolwork was going, parent-teacher conferences, and Team meetings. The more we became involved in special education, the more we wrote, since there were so many details to keep track of.

Over time, keeping our journal became a habit. We wrote detailed notes and impressions immediately after Team meetings and phone calls with school personnel. We recorded our son’s mood after he came home from school each day. We followed up these experiences with letters to school personnel. Writing factual notes became an important part of the special education experience for us. By middle school our entries revealed that school personnel were giving us conflicting information about our son’s school experience and helped us understand that his placement was not appropriate.

How We Used Our Journal

When we began to work with a lawyer to seek reimbursement for a more appropriate placement, she was able to use the facts and dates to strengthen our case. Through her, we began to appreciate the importance of the “trail of paper” we had created. When our school district served us a discovery request we had the information they requested at our finger tips. Notes that we had taken years earlier suddenly became significant and had a new meaning, just like Emily’s experience in Our Town.

For example, in third grade our school had sent us reports saying how well our son was doing, but in our journal we had recorded details of his frustration at not being able to read at grade level. We could clearly see his struggles with school assignments. He was not excelling in all academic areas as the school had claimed. Testing by professionals independent of our school district confirmed what we had written. Our journal entries were an important part of our case.

Your child will change over the years, but change can happen gradually. Sometimes weeks or months go by and you feel like nothing different has happened. But growth is always happening, so be aware, observe your child, and start recording the details of his or her life. You may feel too busy, but if you make it a practice to spend even five minutes a day recording your impressions, either in writing or in a recording, over time you will see details emerge that will pay big dividends in the future as you advocate for your child.

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How to Use a Paper Trail

lily pads- 3As we wrote in our previous article, How to Create a Paper Trail, special education generates an enormous amount of paperwork. There are many different types of documents such as letters, meeting notices, IEPs, consent forms, and evaluations, that your school district creates as well as documents from outside sources, such as your pediatrician and independent evaluators. The longer your child is on an IEP, the more the paperwork accumulates. All this paperwork shows the chronology of your child’s educational experience and you must file it and organize it so that you can find important documents when they are needed.

Lawyers call this the paper trail, although there are actually two paper trails: yours and your school’s. While these two paper trails may contain many of the same documents, they serve different purposes and often get used in different ways. Parents should understand why they need a paper trail and how they can use it. They should also understand how schools use their paper trails.

How Parents Use a Paper Trail

A clear, well organized paper trail has many benefits for parents. The most immediate benefit is to help you understand your child’s educational history and progress. It can also improve communication with your school district. Ultimately, if you should have a dispute with your school district, your paper trail will be important evidence to support your position.

Here are some ways to use your paper trail:

  • Periodically study your child’s special education documents in chronological order. You will see certain trends emerge as you analyze the data over time, giving you the “big picture” of your child’s educational history. You should do this because your IEP Team members are transient and they aren’t aware of the overall history that you can see. This will improve your ability to communicate with your Team members and advocate for your child. For example, pay special attention to your child’s IEP goals over time. If you notice that one goal stays the same for many years, that means your child hasn’t achieved it and the goal needs to be updated or changed to reflect the lack of progress. An unattained goal might mean that there is a need for different services or that it wasn’t realistic and needs to be rewritten.
  • Use the follow-up letters that you write after every Team meeting (see How to Create a Paper Trail) to document your understanding of what was discussed and agreed to at the meeting. If there is a misunderstanding, you can get it straightened out while memories are still fresh and it is easier to correct. If an agreed on item recorded in your letter doesn’t take place, then a copy of your letter serves as a diplomatic reminder to the person who had agreed to the action item.
  • At least once a year compare your child’s IEP goals and IEP progress reports. Make sure the progress reports reflect your own observations as recorded in your parent journal. If these progress reports do not contain accurate information, be sure to question them in writing to your special education liaison. This will become part of your paper trail, and will prevent the school from using inaccurate progress reports to prove that they were providing an appropriate education in a due process hearing (see “How Schools Use a Paper Trail” below).

How Schools Use a Paper Trail

In our book, we describe how we would get consistently positive progress reports, even after it became apparent that the comments in the reports didn’t match what our son was experiencing. The reason for this, we realized, was not just to try to make us feel better, but for the school to create a paper trail to indicate that it was providing an appropriate education. If you should be compelled to take your district to a mediation or a due process hearing, the school can produce all their positive progress reports to prove they were providing the Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) required by law. When the progress reports you get don’t match your observations and you don’t dispute them in writing, the school can use them to demonstrate to a mediator or hearing officer that your child was achieving his or her IEP goals.

This is not just speculation; schools are always prepared with written documentation to supply as evidence in a hearing. A few years ago, our school district used progress reports as part of its defense in a hearing with another family, claiming that the student’s progress reports showed he was meeting the goals and objectives in his IEP. Throughout the thirty-page hearing decision, there are seven references to the school district quoting from progress reports about how well this student was doing in the public school. This was in sharp contrast to the parents’ and the experts’ testimony as to how much the student was struggling and not making progress. Happily for the student and his family, there was enough other evidence for the hearing officer to rule in the family’s favor.

A Parent’s Right to Inspect School Records

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) gives parents the right to inspect and make copies of their child’s school records. It is important to periodically examine these records because they may contain information that you have not received or may have misplaced. Make copies of everything you don’t have and include these copies in your files. In our case, we discovered handwritten notes in the margins that we hadn’t seen on the copies of documents that the school had sent us. These notes, even if they don’t seem important, should be part of your files, too.

You can inspect your child’s records by writing a letter to your school district requesting a convenient date and time for you to view them. Be sure to request the complete file, as documents may be in different locations; for example, medical records in the nurse’s office and academic records in the special education department office. Most states have regulations that specify how much advance notice you are required to give and how quickly the school is required to respond. You can check the regulations on your state’s department of education website. For a nominal copying fee, you can make copies of anything you want. If you have misplaced any of your school documents, you should find them in your child’s file and make a copy for yourself to complete your records at home. You may even find documents that you did not know existed. Going through your child’s school file is a valuable exercise.

Correcting Inaccurate School Records

Although we have not had to do this, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) gives parents the right to ask the school to correct records that they believe are inaccurate or misleading. If the school refuses, parents then have the right to request a hearing to compel the school to make the correction. Some state laws may give you similar rights. Of course a hearing is an expensive and time-consuming process that has no certain outcome, so it is best that you only attempt one if an error significantly impacts your child’s education, and then only after you exhaust every other means to reach a mutually agreeable solution to the problem.

The Importance of Being Prepared

Your paper trail is evidence of your child’s progress or lack of progress in special education. Someday you may need these documents to help tell your story to an impartial observer in a mediation or a due process hearing. You may think that a dispute that requires mediation or even a hearing will never happen to you. But if it should happen, you must be prepared. Your school district can even demand documents from you in a legal process called “discovery.” We have been through this, compelled to supply many of our records, and our paper trail was critical to doing it successfully.

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How to Create a Paper Trail

Special education generates an enormous amount of paperwork. The longer your child is on an IEP, the more paperwork you will accumulate. It is essential that you organize and manage this paperwork. Take this job seriously, for without ready access to a complete history of the documents that describe your child’s experience with special education, you run the risk of missing important opportunities.

Why Organize Your Papers

Planning for the future by organizing your documents now doesn’t come naturally for most parents of children in special education. By necessity, you are intensely focused on just managing the present. How are you going to get through the next week or month, or finish the school year successfully? Or, how are you going to begin the new school year on a positive note? Remember, however, that school employees follow procedures that require sending parents a variety of documents, such as evaluations, Team meeting invitations, consent forms, IEPs, and progress reports. It’s easy to slip the latest document into a drawer filled with bills and bank statements. Even a recently mailed IEP can be misplaced or lost for good if your incoming mail is disorganized. Don’t let this happen to you.

Starting Down the Trail

You need a system for saving and organizing your documents so you don’t have to undertake a major search for them later. Begin by creating a file for each school year and put all the school documents you receive into that file. Make sure each document has a full date, including the year, and if you need to make marginal notes or underline anything, make a copy and mark the copy up. Never write on an original and never give the original to anyone, even if it is a professional evaluating your child. Only share copies. Keep the original documents in a safe place and in good condition. Even if you can do no more than this at the beginning, it is an important step to take before the papers become scattered and lost.

Types of Documents to Manage

There are many different types of documents to keep track of. These include forms from school, independent evaluations from outside professionals, notes from meetings, and logs from telephone conversations. The following are some suggestions of what to keep:

Paper Documents:
In a file drawer or simple file box, create and label folders for your child’s documents from school as well as documents from outside evaluators. Be sure to also include any pertinent medical records. When you receive a letter or document from the school, keep the envelope that it was mailed in with the document. The postmark date on the envelope can be important later to show whether the school complied with a specific deadline.

Electronic Communications:
Emails are as important as formal letters, so be sure to keep these messages organized. Make and file paper backup copies of all your email and other electronic communications that you write to and receive from teachers and other service providers, your special education liaison, or the school district’s director of special education. Also back up the electronic files on a CD or other non-volatile media. The headers and date notation can serve as proof of an agreed-upon service or notification.

Conversation Logs:
As soon as possible after a conversation (telephone or person-to-person) with school personnel, record the essential points of that conversation in a notebook you keep especially for that purpose. Be sure to include the date and time. If something important was said, write a letter to that person describing what you understood in the conversation. Your letter can be a reminder of what was discussed, especially if it was about an action item.

Parent’s Journal:
In addition to the conversation log, keep a journal to record your observations about your child’s progress. Write about his or her activities and other interests. Be sure to include the full date and any details you think are significant. A parent’s recollections can be important to let the Team know how things are going at home and outside of school. You can read more about keeping a journal here.

Meeting Notes and Follow-ups:
Take notes at all your Team meetings or have a friend or relative be the note taker. Be sure to transcribe all handwritten notes as soon as possible while the specifics of the discussion are still fresh in your mind. Also, after reviewing your notes, send a letter to your liaison with a list of all the topics that were discussed and agreements that were made. This provides a record of your understanding of what happened at that meeting. If there is a misunderstanding, you can get it straightened out while memories are still fresh and it is easier to correct.

Proof of Receipt:
When you write a letter to the school, either send it with a return receipt or hand deliver it to the school’s secretary with a second copy that the secretary can stamp with the current date so you can prove that the school received the letter and on what date. FAX transmission can also be useful for this purpose if you save the confirmation sheet and mail the original copy. This may sound extreme, but certain communications between parents and schools must be in writing and must be received within a certain number of days either before or after a specific event, such as unilateral placement in a school outside the district. Otherwise, you may jeopardize some due process rights.

Canceled Checks and Invoices:
Another category of records are receipts for the cost of services that you pay for related to your child’s education. There are situations where having these records available will lead to full or partial reimbursement.

Public Records:
Look for and file any public documents that describe the schools in your town or contain interviews with administrators or teachers. This would include newspapers, magazines, or even minutes of school committee meetings. These documents can provide valuable background information about the attitude of your district toward the special education programs your school offers.

How You Benefit

You need well-organized files (your “paper trail”) because there are inevitable breakdowns in communication between parents and schools. Having a clear, written record of who has said what, when it was said, and to whom, serves to reduce misunderstandings and increase positive communication.

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Patients treated in intensive care units enter their medical care with no evidence of cognitive impairment but often leave with deficits similar to those seen in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that persist for at least a year, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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