u/ApprehensiveMud4211

My 3yo is starting pre-K 3 next week and we're really anxious because they don't do naps. He was in the mother's day out program at the same school and they did, so we assumed they would continue naps for as long as possible. We only learned about this from a friend with an older kid and not from the school until we asked.

Our current plan is to nap him as soon as we pick him up on regular days (get home at 2, nap until 4), but our twice a week extended days sound like they'll be hell. Mind you, this boy can nap for 2-3h everyday.

Parents: How are you guys handling not napping your kid with high nap needs?

Teachers: how do you keep these kids awake and/or from destroying the place when they're overtired?

The pharmacy was supposed to fill them by Friday but it still says delayed. I called them on Friday and they said they've been ordered. Mind you, this is the only pharmacy in town that takes my insurance and will give me a decent price for Xcopri and is willing to order it. Don't ask me why. I've spent too long on hold with so many pharmacies and insurance trying to figure this out. I'm still on a lot of lamotrigine (getting tapered off on Wednesday) and I have clonazepam as back up, but I really don't want to live on emergency meds.

I'll be 2 weeks seizure free tomorrow for the first time in months. This sucks so much.

UPDATE: finally filled!

I haven't been more than a week seizure free in months. I was supposed to get the whole morning to work while my partner takes the kid out, but my brain decided to F up instead. I'm done. I can hardly function. I have so little independence. I'm so tired.

I haven't been able to drive in over 2 years. I'm currently visiting and staying with a family member who lives in a retirement community in the suburbs. I hate it. I can't go anywhere. Our kid is going stir crazy in a house full of breakable things. My husband is working from home while we're traveling and can't get any work done between our crazy kid and needing to drive me around. Family member hates driving us around unless they're doing something with us that they like. A few days ago, their chronic condition flared so they can't drive either. My husband is really stressed out with work and needing to be everything to everyone. Family member doesn't understand how stressed out he is and is whining why we can't take them anywhere anytime. I wish I could take some of that off him.

Apparently my son has seen enough of my seizures to imitate them very accurately. He's 3 and doesn't really understand what's going on yet. Advice?

I've only had focal seizures until this point. Had a 4 min long TC last night. I just want to stay in bed all day. I have an appointment with my neurologist on Friday. What should we talk about?

A student got a 0 their final paper because of plagiarism and so failed the course (not by much, but still an F). Naturally, they've appealed their grade and my chair spoke to them before this goes any further. My chair looked through the paper and said that most of the citations were sloppy and one was outright plagiarism. The student didn't submit a draft or attend the required draft meeting. I also suspected AI, but can't prove it. Chair is asking if I could give this kid a chance and meet with them and maybe let them redo the paper. He says that he'll support whatever decision I make, but he doesn't know if admin will. Some things to consider:

1. The student's parents got involved. I'm not sure if this means they're donors and are throwing their weight around.
2. If admin comes for my head, I don't absolutely need this job (spouse is TT at the same institution; I'm a trailing spouse and I'm too disabled to work full-time anyway). This is a matter of principle for me. My question is whether this will affect my ability to get hired by other institutions in the future, or affect my spouse's job in any way.
3. I'm relatively new but have taught full-time at other places where I received 100% support for academic integrity cases, so this whole "admin might not be nice to you" thing is new to me.

Thoughts?

I'm teaching my in-person gen ed history class online next semester. I have never taught online and definitely don't know anything about teaching asynchronously. I'm definitely going to do either the midterm or the final as an oral exam, but I don't know how to create assessments that aren't just going to be straight AI slop. I also hate forum posts, unless someone can convince me of their pedagogical value in the AI age. Advice?

It's the end of the semester so I assume everyone's getting a whole lot of "why am I failing please help me" emails/office hour visits.

My favourite one so far is a student who was on the verge of getting an automatic F for attendance issues asking why his grade is so low. Sir, you have 9 0s for in-class quizzes and assignments after dropping the lowest 3 (all 0s) and excusing a few absences.