This week I got a call from my the school psychologist for my son’s school (Let’s call her Becky, because that’s her name.) Becky has always been fairly cordial and reasonable – although I cannot say that her work with my children has produced any specific positive results, but I have historically blamed the school…
Note: I wrote this post in response to my child coming home distraught – in tears, actually – over the cavalier attitudes/misplaced and absolute confidence of nearly all of the adults who whom he has interacted with at school regarding this issue. While my tone may seem inappropriate and my anger may seem misplaced to some, for me…
Alternate Title: What does the Portland Public Schools special education administrative staff really think of parents of children who need their help? – Written: Wednesday, August 22, 2018. [You might want to sit down with a cup of coffee to read this one!] – Yesterday we rented a car for a week. We don’t usually…
For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC…
May 12, 2017 Lead Lurks in PPS Schools. By Bethany Barnes Note: We (Tamara & Leonard Rubin) usually post articles here on my blog without much commentary, but we could not be silent about one point in this article from this weekend’s Oregonian Newspaper. We have written the following in response. To see the original…
My family received this in the mail yesterday (4/27/2017). It is a political mass mailing about the 2017 Portland Public Schools Bond Measure 26-193, coming up for a vote next month (here in Portland, Oregon – USA.) I will be writing a blog post about my thoughts in response to this bond this weekend and will link…