{"id":6805,"date":"2012-05-30T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=6805"},"modified":"2012-05-30T10:15:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:15:39","slug":"the-lighter-side-top-10-signs-of-advocate-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/the-lighter-side-top-10-signs-of-advocate-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lighter Side: Top 10 Signs of Advocate Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"The%20Lighter%20Side%3A%20Top%2010%20Signs%20of%20Advocate%20Overload\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/images\/top.ten.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>&#8211;From one of our favorite advocates who loves the 4 seasons in TX &#8211; <em>drought, flood, blizzard, &amp; twister<\/em>, is a <span style=\"color: #000000;\">COPAA<\/span> member and a faithful conference attendee.<\/p>\n<p>We hope, in spite of &#8220;advocate overload,&#8221; he made it safely home from Miami.<\/p>\n<p>His latest <strong>Top 10 for 2012 &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0You noticed that the words <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copaa.org\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">COPAA<\/span><\/a> and Miami have the same number of vowels, so you post it to the list serve for member feedback.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0<\/strong>You can&#8217;t understand why your presentation to create BIPs for the conference participants was rejected&#8230;.for the 3rd year in a row.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>\u00a0You have attended 4 COPAA conferences and are still not sure what the \u201cnon-party\u201d is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong>\u00a0You believe you can barter Wrightslaw books for breakfast tacos.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong>\u00a0You are just now leaving the 2011 San Antonio Conference for Miami.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong>\u00a0You are just starting to understand that the main difference between school proposed IEPs and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong>\u00a0You are overly fascinated by a Will Rogers quote and its applicability to IDEA &#8211; \u201cIf stupidity got us into this mess, then why can\u2019t it get us out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong>\u00a0You started using too much IDEA lingo at home: \u201cI FBA&#8217;d da BIP outta of de IEP headed sped director, and caught him by his LRE. \u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0You have no time left in the day since you started implementing every COPAA list serve suggestion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.<\/strong>\u00a0 You have downloaded the advocate app that allows you to know where the\u00a0nearest bar is in relation to the current IEP meeting.<\/p>\n<p>As the end of the semester rolls around, there are certain signs, one may observe, that may be indications of special ed advocate burnout. You may also be interested in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=5208\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Top 10&#8221; for the 2011 semester<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=2174\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Top 10 for 2010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;From one of our favorite advocates who loves the 4 seasons in TX &#8211; drought, flood, blizzard, &amp; twister, is a COPAA member and a faithful conference attendee. 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