An old blog took its first breath on this day in 2007
A look back to the first posts on EBD Blog
Writing under the headline, “EBD Blog lives!” I launched one of my early efforts to communicate about special education and disabilities on 4 January 2007. It was a WordPress blog running on my office computer. Here’s that post, in its entirety:
Yep, we’re live here at EBD Blog central. We’re on the air from
http://EBDBlog.com
and ready to roll. More to come…
Stunning content, no? I don’t think that baby’s birth cry was particularly inspiring.
However, about 20 minutes after that post, I served up another blog entry that was a little bit more substantive. Here is the part of it (it’s all I can recover at this time):
Conduct disorder?1
Filed under: News, Conduct disorder, Acting out, Behavior management — JohnL @ 4:47 pm
According to a story carried by CBS 3, a Philadelphia (PA, US) television station, authorities have charged a 12-year-old student with disabilities with disorderly conduct after she urinated in her pants at school. The CBS 3 report is based on a report published 20 December 2006 by the Danville (PA, US) Press Enterprise under the headline “Danville pupil charged with wetting her pants: Angry parents say police shouldn’t have been called” and with the lead, “A sixth-grade girl was charged by police with deliberately wetting her pants at Danville Middle School. (The Press Enterprise article requires a paid subscription, so I’m basing my coverage on an AP article carried by CBS 3. (more…)
The article continued on a page linked to the title (and the word “more” at the end of the tease.) Sadly, the links to the sources from which I drew the story were embedded in that no-longer-available content. As noted, the newspaper report from the Press Enterprise was behind a paywall—and it is still was when I went to the site in 2025 to search for the original.2
However, please consider the content that I can provide. A school called the cops on a 6th grade girl because she urinated in her pants? Wow!
I haven’t been tracking news such as this story, but I have to guess that there may have been some reports about similarly wowing events in the last year or so.
EBD Blog continued to publish content for about 10 more years after its debut. I’ll search the archives and repost some of that content here on Special Education Today.
Footnotes
The title links to the entry that the Internet Archive saved as a part of its effort to ensure that digital content was not lost.
I wasn’t able to find archives for 2007 for the TV station either.