Yesterday, after I got yet another phone call from Caroline who in tears because she couldn't find her PE class in the gym when they were supposed to be there, I flew down to the school. I had really
had it. I marched into the attendance office and declared that we had a major problem (I wasn't yelling but almost) and that we had to fix it NOW. What it boiled down to was that she had been going to the wrong PE class for two weeks and no one figured it out but me. That is ridiculous. The teacher whom she was supposed to have was marking her absent after Day 1, but the wrong teacher somehow had her on his roster and was marking her present. So attendance thought she was in the right PE class. By going to the wrong PE class for two weeks, she was going to the wrong lunch and then missing half of biology! She was being told by attendance she was supposed to be in B lunch, but the PE class had A lunch and so she was utterly confused by everyone and everything. I am bewildered as to how this could have happened. My poor kid! And everyone was blaming her for not being in the right place at the right time!
Oh NO!!!! How frustrating! Schools seem unprepared for how much help our kids may need to adjust, it's such a shame.
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