How long have you been admin?
What do you do for a living?
I have been an admin for about two years. There were elections for admins about two years ago and I was elected in the first election and re-elected in all the subsequent ones.
I have been a stay at home parent for most of my daughter's life until she started attending a special school for autistic children that is some distance from our home about two years ago. For about a year, I was a volunteer who rode with her on the long bus rides to and from this school to make sure she could handle it and to make sure everyone was safe. I was still a volunteer when the school district added another little girl with autism to the bus, but when they added two more children to the bus, they needed to actually hire someone to do it. So I applied for the job and got it. Then they added two more children to the bus, for a total of six children who attended three different schools.
My official job title was special education paraprofessional, but my job was to look after the children on the bus and make sure they were safe and comfortable for the long bus ride to their schools. This was my job until I badly sprained my ankle in April. Then I was no longer allowed by the doctors to climb onto the bus and move around the bus to physically manage the kids, so I had to stay home while other people handled them.
The first thing they figured out is that my daughter needed a highly trained person just to attend to her needs and the other children needed another person to take care of their needs, so they needed to hire two people to do the job I did alone. This arrangement worked out OK for my daughter until the special education teacher who had been riding the bus with my daughter couldn't do it anymore and they assigned a relatively untrained person to attend to my daughter. This did not work out well for her at all, so they started sending a separate car for my daughter and me, so I could go with her. This has worked out very well and there have been no issues.
