More Location Issues

So, last night we discovered that KC doesn't want her litter box near the ferrets either. She peed on Steven's armchair 3 times and pooped on it once. I ran her under the bathtub faucet twice last night. Not just the head, her whole body. Spanking her didn't seem like enough of a statement. She's getting too picky for her own good.

Location, Location, Location

So my cat KC is a freak. That's generally an accepted fact. For 2-3 weeks she's been insisting on drinking out of the dogs' water bowl. I know she hates Zoot so I figured it was a dominance thing. But about a week ago she stopped eating. KC's a little on the hefty side so I wasn't too worried at first. She didn't act sick and she wasn't dehydrated so I figured she'd eat when she got hungry enough. During this time though she was trying to eat any dog food that dropped on the floor (and Zoot didn't get to first) or that Tim left unfinished. Once again, I thought this was a dominance issue. On Wednesday she still hadn't eaten anything and I started to worry. Yesterday I got her some canned food. I put it in her bowl and put her bowl in Tim's bowl. We were thinking maybe she didn't like her bowls anymore. Or maybe she didn't like her food anymore. So we took the dogs out to the hay field for about half an hour. We came back and KC had eaten half the food! So, it wasn't the bowl but it could still be the food. I was just glad she had eaten something. This morning when I fed the dogs she started meowing. I heated up her left over canned food and she went crazy. I went and put it in her room. She didn't go eat. I picked her up and put her in front of it. She turned around and walked away. I put her food on the kitchen table and put her up there. She ate it. So, ok. She doesn't want to eat in her room, whatever. But she's not eating on the table all the time. So to test my theory I put her regular dry food and her water on top of the washer. When I got home from work she had eaten all the food. When I fed the dogs tonight, I fed her also. She jumped up on the washer and started eating. What a freak!! She's SO picky!

Behavior

When you have persistent behavior issues but are still expected for the education of 24 students to be your focus, how do you serve either set of kids.

The current method of behavior modifications in schools (in-school-suspension, out-of-school-suspension, expulsion, and assignment to the campus for kids with persistent behavior problems) doesn't do much good.

ISS-don't get help with work, sit and do nothing, get on the computer and play
OSS- most kids get a vacation because parents are at work
Expulsion- vacation
Rebound(reassignment campus)- on computer and no help with work

I feel like I've failed a few of my students.