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Memo: Send names of kids who you think would benefit from school-level speech therapy.

Ms. D_C's reply: [three first names, since all electronic transmissions should contain only initials or first names] ... What criteria should we use to refer them?

Reply: Last names, please.

Ms. D_C's reply: [three complete names] So, no criteria?

Reply: I need to find out. Also, [name] already goes to speech therapy.

Immediately following, there is a school-wide e-mail that says, essentially, All teachers should know the services their SN kids get. Get with the program.

Ms. D_C wants to reply: I know [name] gets speech therapy. Your criteria-free e-mail asked who could benefit from school-level therapy - which, obviously, [name] can. At the rate the ____ department prematurely exits their needy kids, who's to say speech doesn't do the same? Piss up a rope. And next time, ask a more specific question.

Ms. D_C will reply: Let me know when you find out, thanks.

Shouldn't criteria be established before asking for recommendations? I'm not a speech pathologist - I don't know if I should recommend a girl with a lisp that doesn't preclude understanding, or if a whispery voice is a clinical speech impediment.