Given the media coverage (her parents helped get) she is now better off in another school which can meet her situation. Plus, it costs good money to send kids to Catholic school today.
Tired of Taxes made a good point. What about summer school? If making accommodations goes against the schools standards then why even try? I mean the school had to know what the kid was up against. I guess they gave it try and wished for the best.
When I saw this story, I thought of you, Redleghunter, and hoped you would stop in to add your insight. :-)
As a cradle Catholic - who left for a long time but returned later to the Catholic Church - I’m really surprised by this story. I’ve never heard of a Catholic school dismissing a student after she had such a serious illness. It goes against everything the Catholic faith is about.
You mentioned in one of your above posts that homeschooling might not be the best option for children fighting cancer because they need friends around them. So, I did want to tell you about our local homeschool community: My own children always were homeschooled, and there’s a large, very supportive community of people out here in HomeSchool World. ;-) When one becomes ill, the whole community organizes quickly to support that person through prayer, fundraising, meals, and more.
The kids in our community know each other through cooperative classes and extracurricular activities. And, this year, a well-liked teenaged homeschooled student was diagnosed with cancer. I don’t want to give details on the public forum because it’s not my story to share. But, when this young man was diagnosed, the entire community rallied around him immediately: cooking and delivering dinners to the family; praying together for him; donating money; fundraising through the sale of t-shirts and other things with well wishes to him printed on them. The other night, we attended a benefit concert, with all the musical talents within our homeschool community performing to raise money for his family.
We’ve had so much tragedy within our community, though. There are many people living in difficult circumstances, but there’s a lot of support here. I wanted you and everyone to know that it can be a good option sometimes. I suppose, like everything, though, it sometimes depends on where you live and who you know.