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Our Return To Richmond

My feelings at this point:  Conflicted.  It’s never easy to walk away from your dream job and that is what I had just done.  At the time it was scary, but looking back we certainly made the right decision.  I … Continue reading

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Saying Goodbye to Our Friends at The Charles Webb Center

Finally the day came that Ben and I would join Dennis in Richmond. One of the hardest parts of this was that we had to leave our friends at the Charles Webb Center. Dennis documented our last day with the … Continue reading

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Preparing for the Move

Once the decision to move was made there was much work to do.  Our first choice would be; where do we go?  This was not difficult.  Except for the experience we had with the city bureaucrats, we both loved Richmond … Continue reading

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Should We Stay or Should We Go?

After four years of putting down roots in Charleston the decision to leave was a little difficult, but then again we really had no choice.   It was clear that the Charleston County School System did not have the best interest of … Continue reading

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Our Second Try for a Successful IEP

Our next IEP with Charleston County Schools came after we had come to a semi-agreement with regards to transportation.  The Charles Webb Center had moved to its new site and a school in that district had a special education program which … Continue reading

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