Funny how we let our emotions take hold and make snap decisions without thinking. What is the school's responsibility for handling special cases? Do they have to expend time/effort/money on any and all "special needs" that crop up?
I can't see where it is the school's responsibility to keep her on track - she went through a terrible ordeal and it looks like her life is not to be forfeit - perhaps backing up and regrouping and continuing with a couple year delay isn't really such a bad thing. Else, we may as well condone bending all the common sense rules to ensure that minorities get good grades and scholarships for not being able to read or apply themselves to actually earn the grades...oh, wait....
There is more to the story than the tear-jerker, pile on the school story here and some of us are taking the bait - against a Christian school no less.
A private school does not have the same legal responsibilities that a PS has.
It is obvious the school and parents came to some accord on how to proceed. The school should never have signed on to do this given they should have known the kid would never meet attendance standards given her treatments and condition. It is not like Catholic schools have never encountered students with cancer before. They should have (did they?) summer school or a time period like summer school to catch up or offer a repeat of the grade. The kid had cancer...she's not a kid who is struggling with English as a second language. Chemotherapy for over three years is serious business and the school should have known that.
The parents on the other hand, it was their first experience with a child with cancer. The school? The Catholic church schools in general? No. They knew what they were dealing with. They may have warned the parents of their limitations and standards or just thanked them for the tuition and a heavier envelop the next Sunday. Who knows but the school should not hold the kid to the attendance standard. That is just plain stupid. Any Priest or laymen doctor associated with the school could have told them the kid would be laid up quite often sick or at risk in public with neutropenia.