Zoe Girl
8-8-12, 11:51pm
I have been keeping cool but I am now getting very nervous. My son went o the art school here for 2 years (his is 15). He had some bad grades that did not pull up by the end of the year. They have a very strict policy about this, however he does think his last assignment should have affected the grade that was less than a percent low. He has not had a response to his email to his guitar teacher.
We have rather accepted he probably won't go back there this year. Sometimes he is upset and other times it seems okay. Of course we knew which school we thought we were in the boundary for and today just figured out that we are NOT actually in that boundary. This means a totally different high school for him, and he had at least one friend going to the new one for him.
here's the deal, he has pretty severe anxiety. last fall he had a week when several stresses hit the family and he was not able to get to school for a week. I drove him to the school and the social worker came out to the car and my son could not stop shaking and crying even in front of him. It is REALLY scary to stay home from work because your kid is considered 'soft suicidal' and then not be able to return him to the school he finally got some comfort in. We have put lots of effort into this problem, the best answer has been medication and friends. You can't imagine the difference having friends makes. It took over a year after we moved before anyone came over to our house. Now it is possible that we are too late to get him into a school where he even knows one person. He will need to take the public bus daily, even on the first day, because my job is before and after school care in the same district and I kinda lost my lead person yesterday. That means I will be there are 615 am every day (not close to home).
Tomorrow I am going to take breaks and try to take care of many of these things. After our training in the am (this is major crunch time for us as well) I am going to make calls, go to schools, whatever I can in a short time. Maybe even get the DR to work with us on a documentation for accomodation for the anxiety. I am not even sure what is possible.
We have rather accepted he probably won't go back there this year. Sometimes he is upset and other times it seems okay. Of course we knew which school we thought we were in the boundary for and today just figured out that we are NOT actually in that boundary. This means a totally different high school for him, and he had at least one friend going to the new one for him.
here's the deal, he has pretty severe anxiety. last fall he had a week when several stresses hit the family and he was not able to get to school for a week. I drove him to the school and the social worker came out to the car and my son could not stop shaking and crying even in front of him. It is REALLY scary to stay home from work because your kid is considered 'soft suicidal' and then not be able to return him to the school he finally got some comfort in. We have put lots of effort into this problem, the best answer has been medication and friends. You can't imagine the difference having friends makes. It took over a year after we moved before anyone came over to our house. Now it is possible that we are too late to get him into a school where he even knows one person. He will need to take the public bus daily, even on the first day, because my job is before and after school care in the same district and I kinda lost my lead person yesterday. That means I will be there are 615 am every day (not close to home).
Tomorrow I am going to take breaks and try to take care of many of these things. After our training in the am (this is major crunch time for us as well) I am going to make calls, go to schools, whatever I can in a short time. Maybe even get the DR to work with us on a documentation for accomodation for the anxiety. I am not even sure what is possible.