Jack's Jem:

  So this little Jem is courtesy of his school.  First off, I want to say that his new school is awesome and is working hard to help him be successful despite himself.  So as you can imagine the school and his classroom has many more students than he is use to.  This leads to him getting frustrated in class.  Well they have set up a system where he can leave the class with his work and do it in the special education classroom. His classroom and the special education classroom are on different floors, this is important for my story so keep it in mind.

  Especially those of you who have worked with Jack, know that doing the work is not a problem usually he can finish almost anything in about a minute.  This is also important to the story.

  Now for those who don't know Jack, his Autism really manifests itself in his understanding of social norms.  He especially can't understand why he can't do things the way he wants to.  This is too is important to the story.

So here is the Story, I bet you thought I would never get to it. 

  As you can image Jack has figured out that if he shows up in the special education classroom without classroom work he can work on stuff he wants to do.  He observed that between his classrooms there is lots of space without someone watching him.  So he devised a plan, to hide his classwork between the classrooms.  But, this is Jack so this is not some toss your paper's in a trash can kind of plan, oh no no.  He decided that if he hid his papers all over the place even if someone found one of the papers, he would only be stuck doing that paper. So you ask how did we find out about his dastardly plan. Well it was the principle that noticed that there were papers hidden behind pictures on the wall and under things in the hallway.

  Now I was really mad at him for doing this but, I have to admit that it is really kind of funny to image an 8 year old hiding individual papers all over the school, and the poor school staff finding them.  I wonder how long he has been doing this and how many assignments may be lost forever.  I have to give him credit it is really quite a good plan.  I won't tell him that though. 


So I sit here wondering if in the distant future when they finally shut down Jack's school, and when they take the last picture off the wall, will there be an old yellowing handout that is titled:

Jack McAden 2013

I just hope he uses his powers for good.
Enjoy
Dad