Laughing So We Don’t Cry : True Stores about Special Education

You think you know special education? You don’t.
Not until you’ve lived through a fire drill where one student refuses to return for three hours, data sheets that require NASA-level precision, IEP meetings that should come with warning labels, and behavior plans written by people who have never been within twelve feet of an actual child.
In this brutally honest, darkly funny, and deeply revealing behind-the-scenes account, veteran special educator Victoria McCabe pulls back the curtain on the hidden world the public rarely sees. Through real stories—sometimes shocking, sometimes heartbreaking, often absurd—you’ll witness:

• Students whose needs far exceed what school can realistically provide
• Behavior plans that belong in the fiction section
• Therapies, services, and goals that make no sense in the real world
• Parents in denial, administrators with magical thinking, and transportation that routinely derails the entire day
• Medical emergencies, staff injuries, impossible laws, and the human cost teachers quietly absorb