Edward Jay McElroy:  

stics, Administration in Ed, and Metal Work. I was on campus at SDSU the day a Phd candidate stressed out over his dissertation gunned down three Drs on the review board. They locked down the entire campus that day, and I was stressed because I had my two young sons there with me that day. The student was apprehended after the shooting, but the lesson I learned made me think about the possibility of having been in the building where the review was being held... kind of freaks me out a little... Workplace I left RI for a while and began teaching in California. After spending a summer restoring an old yacht in Glorietta Bay in Coronado Ca., I secured a full time position teaching kids with developmental disabilities and Autism. I have gained a lot of experience in Ca. Teaching Special Education in the public sector and for the California Dept of Corrections in San Diego. Before leaving Ca, I taught a class of medically fragile toddlers, and primary elementary school aged children. It seems that I have learned a lot about life from those who don't have a great deal of time left here on earth, but am moved and touched that I was allowed to spend some of the little time some of the kids were here. Currently, I teach older students with Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Developmental disabilities at Bradley Hospital in East Providence RI, and love every minute of my job. I am also involved with children in a second job teaching music and guitar to kids of all ages.