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<blockquote data-quote="Thinking Outside the Box" data-source="post: 318171" data-attributes="member: 8210"><p><span style="color: purple"> Everyone gave you great ideas; I hope that they will work for your difficult child. We did very much the same things with our easy child 1. He did not have a shadow, but was accounted for every period and it was reported back to his school counselor. The school misplaced my easy child 1 several times and called home to tell us he had skipped school when in fact he was serving in-school suspensions and once was out for a graduation rehearsal and they said he had skipped. We had meeting after meeting with the staff trying to get them to realize that there are infact some parents in the world that still parent their high school aged children! They felt it wasn't their job to keep track of him and we felt that unless our easy child 1 was officially dropped out of school, then he was still very much a student and was their responsibility as well as ours. If the school can call and tell us that our easy child 1 poured milk in the industrial fan in the lunch room when it was full of students, then they can call when he is absent and when he isn't working in class!! </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: purple">We got him through graduation and he will be starting college the winter semester. Raising children doesn't end when they get into high school. The schools need to be held accountable. Where is the school lacking that kids can get away with having sex on school grounds? You are right to be concerned and the per period check-in worked great for us. The hardest part was getting cooperation from the school staff and some of his teachers really resented that we were asking them for help. We had weekly emails from every teacher on his behavior and productivity in class (in detail). If he was missing work, we wanted a breakdown of assignments. We left no room for slacking-from our easy child 1 or the school. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: purple">Our easy child 1 couldn't handle it on his own at this point, he needed help. There were a lot of people in our lives that felt that we were "saving" him but, as his parents, we felt we were just throwing him a rope. He still had to make the decision to grab on. As parents, I guess it is normal to always want to "save or rescue" our children, but it is more valuable to give them the proper tools they need so they can "save" themselves.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: purple">easy child 1 is doing great and I don't think that he will be a burden to society because we provided him with the help he needed during a time of crisis. I hope that everything works out and if you find an advocate that knows their stuff, they can be a big help when dealing with the school. Take care! </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thinking Outside the Box, post: 318171, member: 8210"] [COLOR=purple] Everyone gave you great ideas; I hope that they will work for your difficult child. We did very much the same things with our easy child 1. He did not have a shadow, but was accounted for every period and it was reported back to his school counselor. The school misplaced my easy child 1 several times and called home to tell us he had skipped school when in fact he was serving in-school suspensions and once was out for a graduation rehearsal and they said he had skipped. We had meeting after meeting with the staff trying to get them to realize that there are infact some parents in the world that still parent their high school aged children! They felt it wasn't their job to keep track of him and we felt that unless our easy child 1 was officially dropped out of school, then he was still very much a student and was their responsibility as well as ours. If the school can call and tell us that our easy child 1 poured milk in the industrial fan in the lunch room when it was full of students, then they can call when he is absent and when he isn't working in class!! [/COLOR] [COLOR=purple][/COLOR] [COLOR=purple]We got him through graduation and he will be starting college the winter semester. Raising children doesn't end when they get into high school. The schools need to be held accountable. Where is the school lacking that kids can get away with having sex on school grounds? You are right to be concerned and the per period check-in worked great for us. The hardest part was getting cooperation from the school staff and some of his teachers really resented that we were asking them for help. We had weekly emails from every teacher on his behavior and productivity in class (in detail). If he was missing work, we wanted a breakdown of assignments. We left no room for slacking-from our easy child 1 or the school. [/COLOR] [COLOR=purple][/COLOR] [COLOR=purple]Our easy child 1 couldn't handle it on his own at this point, he needed help. There were a lot of people in our lives that felt that we were "saving" him but, as his parents, we felt we were just throwing him a rope. He still had to make the decision to grab on. As parents, I guess it is normal to always want to "save or rescue" our children, but it is more valuable to give them the proper tools they need so they can "save" themselves.[/COLOR] [COLOR=purple][/COLOR] [COLOR=purple]easy child 1 is doing great and I don't think that he will be a burden to society because we provided him with the help he needed during a time of crisis. I hope that everything works out and if you find an advocate that knows their stuff, they can be a big help when dealing with the school. Take care! [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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