Elephants Have Good Memories

I have a comment to make about a comment to me:


Nobody's Patsy said...
Hey Pro--

"It's all about the documentation. If it isn't on paper, then it never happened. The best things people like you and myself (and countless others) is to teach our breatheren who, how, when, and why to document. We are all highly educated folks, we of all people should know about the power of the pen. I am availble for lessons if need be.

March 23, 2008 10:18 PM" and can be found here


I have started the process of labeling my previous posts. I am now more and more seeing issues and ideas coming up that I have given an opinion or comment on from my position. I can't find my comments very easily, so maybe if I have a label system, it will help me find the links faster.

I know full well about the importance of a paper trail. Of equal importance is whether the trail is present or not present. Somewhere I wrote about how much power the entity has that controls the paper trail. Fabrication, fraudulent change and missing documentation is all part of the game. Somewhere I wrote about how important it is to make copies and make sure someone else has a copy, and everyone knows that someone else has that copy. It is called insurance.

Below is what I wrote about my perception of district documentation. The full context can be found here: Big Fat Money


"I have been in many, many IEP meetings. I know the game. If an elephant came into the IEP meeting, dropped a load right in the middle of the table, no one could ever prove it if it wasn't written in the IEP form or the conference notes. Even when there are teachers, ESE specialists, related service personnel, principals, directors and parents that see the elephant, moved their papers out of the way of the big dump, and smelled the aroma that stunk up the whole room. If it wasn't written, it didn't happen."

S""t happens all of the time, and with elephants in the room, it's a load.