“Father Fleckenstein says for privacy reasons, he could not talk about the situation in its entirety.”
Coward.
I feel sorry for the girl, having already suffered, but she apparently has missed a great deal of school. Unfortunate that there was not better communication between school and home. She should not have reached this close to the end of the semester without the parents being fully aware of her status. This should not have been a surprise to anyone.
I wish they hadn’t printed the photo of her weeping. Don’t kids get any privacy these days? Don’t they want any?
Tell the school shes an illegal alien...
or a trannie...
Dattle on, Xena!
I missed 87 days of my junior year- my school was very understanding and let me slide and gave me basically an honorary graduation certificate when I finished school- What is wrong with people today?
you knowe, the two lesbians who sued the bakery because they wouldn’t bake them a cake, claimed they suffered ‘emotional distress’ and were rewarded almost $200,000- Yet this opoor girl is in REAL emotional distress, and this school will likely get away with it scott free?
They could at least have waited until summer break.
The school leadership is cold-blooded.
Only attended 32 days this year? And the parents think that complaining to the press and filing a Civil Rights complaint is the answer?
There is more to this story.
Copy. Paste.
In what way was it ever in this girl’s best interests to attend school so sick, barely learn the material, and be passed with bottom of her class grades?
Repeating the grade isn’t being mean. It is better preparing her for college.
This shines a light on the difference between a public school and a private school.
A PS would have provided a home tutor for this student.
The private school has the right to dismiss anyone, anytime. THE PS is stuck with a/ny child, good/bad or otherwise. Kinda like a marriage .... *in sickness and in health....*
Sounds as if her school tried to work with the situation.
The letter says the school tried to work with Rose and reduced her workload.
**”These were extraordinary circumstances, but so many accommodations were made we felt eventually it became a point where we really had to help Rose, by being able to make sure that she was getting the assistance that she needed and to learn,” said Father John Fleckenstein, with Battle Creek Area Catholic Schools.**
There’s more to this story, than is being reported.
The school made accommodations by reducing her work load; so translated, she still did not meet all the academic standards to pass the courses. I’m praying for her full recovery, and for her to understand that when you don’t meet requirements you don’t get rewarded. The parents had options: hire a private tutor, transfer her to a public school for the year and get a tax-payer funded home bound tutor, etc. If she was too sick to even do this, then she honestly needs to repeat the grade so that she does not struggle throughout the rest of her academic carreer.
Another reason to home school!
What a stupid school... the girl had an illness, she was not playing hookey!!!
If academic and attendance standards were truly not met, how we we hold that against the school? I think we can all sympathize with the girl's plight, and it was probably no fault on her part for missing so much time, but we cannot expect the school to relax their standards either.
Maintaining high standards and not caving into emotional or political pressures is respected in my book. I've never been an advocate of the "everybody gets a trophy" mentality.
But first, let's wait for the whole story.
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A major malfunction here. I am assuming this is a private school and for some reason they do not honor what most states call (at least in Texas) a temporary Section 504-3c. Which gives accommodations to students with temporary or permanent disabilities.
My family has experience with this situation. My son was diagnosed with leukemia at age 10. He missed the last month of school but given he took all his exams and a nice visit with the public school principal we worked out his 4th grade completion. He went through chemo that summer which would continue through the next school year. Working with the principal again we enrolled him in the 504 program. His 4th grade teacher volunteered to exercise the 504 home tutoring program. She would meet him in his hospital room twice a week for instruction and the remaining days of the week based on his strength we (my wife mostly) followed the learning plans. He took the same tests as his peers in class, had the same projects but given more time on projects based on his condition. He did the entire 5th grade this way. He was able to reintegrate in a class for 6th grade but still missed a few weeks due to sickness from chemo.
Chemo patients, especially leukemia patients, are at high risk of contracting infections due to neutropenia. So being in large classrooms with loads of germs around is not healthy for them and could be life ending. That is why this young girl could not be in class for long periods of time.
Sounds like the school did not approach this with logic nor compassion. People can be like that when they do not look to others with love and compassion as Christ did for those who were sick. I was blessed 'the nice visit to the principals office' was not a shouting match. I started the conversation about the faith of our family and the principal cried and prayed with me a few others in the room. This was a public school to boot...but in Texas. I'm sure she could have been heartless like this private school was to the little girl in the article. I see from the picture in the posted article the girl has her hair back...wonderful. Looks like she was ready to get back on the horse and this school kicked her and her parents in the gut.
I won't forget any of the kids my son went to school with either. Every couple of weeks kids called him, wrote him letters and the entire class made him a welcome home banner when he got out of the hospital. They invited him to all school events and kept a desk available with school supplies and his name if he ever was well enough to come to school. Faith and compassion in action there.