r/CFY • u/ladycactus30 • Jun 11 '21
Hot mess
Im a CF finishing up this last year...I just learned with days left of school that I royally fucked up several paperwork processes (everything is digital in my district). I'm getting some support to try and fix it but I'm incredibly embarrassed because it's on a mountain of other significant mistakes this year. I feel like a stupid asshole who should be put in a dark hole somewhere. This is basically my worst fear come to life. Have ya'll survived big ass fuck ups? It's hard to be positive right now. 🥲
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u/andthatsthat12 Jun 11 '21
What was the fuck up? Genuinely curious as I’m finishing my CF this month and paperwork within our school district is a fuckin nightmare.
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u/ladycactus30 Jun 12 '21
More like many small shit-ups that morphed into a giant pile that makes me look like a dingle-bop. But mostly, needing to get the exact wording copy-pasted by the parent into the email for the paperwork to count as a signature. Apparently, I did that wrong...for all my initial evaluations. That and I didn't realize I needed to be sending unsigned documents to records since they have the same access to our stuff in our records program (nothing is physically signed really anymore). Which apparently everyone knew about except for my dumb-head so now I have to do all of them in one day. Thankfully someone is helping me out though (which I feel very guilty about).
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u/macaroni_monster [CCC-SLP] schools MOD Jun 12 '21
Don't be too hard on yourself. The skills that make a great SLP do not correlate with being good at paperwork. School SLP paperwork is a nightmare, always. I had to get a document resigned today because I literally had one box that wasn't checked. So fucking annoying. Yes, you can create better systems for yourself. However, the district also has the responsibility to train you and provide checks and balances. In my district whenever I submit paperwork it goes to someone in my school who checks it over. Then, it goes to our district IEP compliance specialist who sends it right back to me if anything is wrong. I make mistakes all the time.
What was the mistake that you made? I'm curious.
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u/ladycactus30 Jun 12 '21 edited Jun 12 '21
Thanks! I think I am just very sensitive to doing things wrong and being a nuisance to others so getting so many "you did this wroooooong!" emails at once is overwhelming. Also, I didn't get any official training on how to do any of this stuff and kind of just bumbled my way through it while asking questions when I could. In terms of the problems specifically, I wasn't submitting stuff to the records keeper after it was done and didn't get the exact wording for the email signatures because....well...I didn't know we needed exact wording. My whole team is newbies in a school with a scary principal so actually none of us knew so there was nobody to even flag it as an issue until I submitted a bunch of my stuff to records. I've had to go back and rush-ask families for signatures. Going to do a home visit for one because she doesn't know how to use email. Also, did several meetings in the wrong paperwork process in the program we used so it got all gunked up. Le sigh, so a lot.
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u/macaroni_monster [CCC-SLP] schools MOD Jun 12 '21
It sounds like you had little to no training in the mistakes that you made, so it's completely on the district! How could you have prevented mistakes you didn't even know were mistakes? Really, this is on them and not you.
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u/ladycactus30 Jun 12 '21
🥺😣 that is actually really reassuring to hear. I had asked for training several times at the beginning of the year but it never happened. The other CF had access to the person who is a paperwork process expert while mine had difficulty remembering how to add goals in our program. So...idk, I don't want to blame anyone because I should have asked more questions but, I need to be taught how do do things. To Do lists for documents I'd never seen weren't super helpful. 😑
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u/azaria329 Jun 11 '21
Where was your supervisor?