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So this am I contacted the school and verified that difficult child was, indeed, IN SCHOOL yesterday in the detention room....
Also verified that difficult child has been skipping classes to have sex on school grounds and DID have a pregancy scare (though we have been unable to verify her partner/s--the boy she implicated admitted to one rendezvouz but has a rock-solid alibi for the other times difficult child claims to have been with him...so still investigating).
Complained to the principal that this sort of thing should not be happening on school grounds, and if difficult child had been reprimanded for skipping class the FIRST time there might not have been all these other times. At first, the principal claimed staff shortages and budget cuts--but eventually agreed that the important thing was difficult child's safety and that we will have a meeting to implement a communication plan to ensure that this sort of thing never happens again.
Scheduled a doctor appointment for gyne exam/birth control/STD screening AND drug screening.
Spoke to therapist who was completely unaware that difficult child was sexually active--says they will have to decide what to do with this new information.
After speaking with other parents yesterday, we learned that difficult child has been making all kinds of child-abuse claims to anyone who would listen. She is also claiming that she's been raped and sexually assaulted by multiple persons. As difficult child continues to live at home and we seem like such "normal" people, most adults--thank god!!-- have been discounting these stories (figuring that any child subject to the amount and types of atrocities difficult child is claiming would have been removed from our care years ago and husband would have been prosecuted).
When confronted with all of this, difficult child states that everyone else must be lying....because she would never do such a thing.
And so it goes....
So this am I contacted the school and verified that difficult child was, indeed, IN SCHOOL yesterday in the detention room....
Also verified that difficult child has been skipping classes to have sex on school grounds and DID have a pregancy scare (though we have been unable to verify her partner/s--the boy she implicated admitted to one rendezvouz but has a rock-solid alibi for the other times difficult child claims to have been with him...so still investigating).
Complained to the principal that this sort of thing should not be happening on school grounds, and if difficult child had been reprimanded for skipping class the FIRST time there might not have been all these other times. At first, the principal claimed staff shortages and budget cuts--but eventually agreed that the important thing was difficult child's safety and that we will have a meeting to implement a communication plan to ensure that this sort of thing never happens again.
Scheduled a doctor appointment for gyne exam/birth control/STD screening AND drug screening.
Spoke to therapist who was completely unaware that difficult child was sexually active--says they will have to decide what to do with this new information.
After speaking with other parents yesterday, we learned that difficult child has been making all kinds of child-abuse claims to anyone who would listen. She is also claiming that she's been raped and sexually assaulted by multiple persons. As difficult child continues to live at home and we seem like such "normal" people, most adults--thank god!!-- have been discounting these stories (figuring that any child subject to the amount and types of atrocities difficult child is claiming would have been removed from our care years ago and husband would have been prosecuted).
When confronted with all of this, difficult child states that everyone else must be lying....because she would never do such a thing.
And so it goes....
