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?
When my son was 10, he was chronically ill and so I pulled him out and homeschooled him. There was NO WAY that he could’ve continued public school and actually gotten the information that he needed after missing so many days. He was welcomed back once he was well enough to attend. (That didn’t happen for a long time. Homeschooling worked for us)
To say that the girl is happy there and that ‘this is the only place she feels normal’ is stupid. School isn’t a social play group for children. It’s a place to learn. Kids who come in and out fall behind. It’s not fair to the sick kid to push them along. They miss a ton of material that goes beyond the worksheets and the book learning.
When I homeschooled, I didn’t allow my kids to move forward until they’d mastered the step they were on. I didn’t coddle them or hope that they’d pick up missed work down the road. Sometimes they leaped ahead, sometimes they crawled; but we knew right where they were.
Schools will bend over backwards to help a sick kid, but sometimes it’s too much. Let the kid take the rest of the year off, then come back fresh in the fall and repeat a year. It will be best for her in the long run.
I am sick of parents having so much compassion for their children that they handicap them and shield them from what the child actually needs to succeed.
Spot on Bob! This is a professed 'Catholic' school to boot! My son had the same form of cancer and the public school (Texas ya know) was very supportive. He was able to do his assignments at home when he could not be in school and a teacher met him twice a week at home, or in the hospital or somewhere where there were not a colony of germs to make him even more sick.