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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 47859" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Heather, don't be too embarrassed to tell US how many days she's missed. You said, "The SD thinks that despite the immense amount of school that difficult child has missed (I'm too embarrassed to say the number)..."</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 began missing a lot of school when he was 8. Each year he was worse, especially towards the end of each school year, and by the time he was 10 he literally missed about half the school year - over 100 days. It could have been as many as 150. And that's school days, ie five per week of school term, but spread out over the school year. Added to this, he was nauseous at school and getting sent to the sick room until they decided that he was bunging it on and refused to let him leave the classroom. That's when difficult child 3 began throwing up, often several times day, at school. At first vomiting got him sent to the sick room, where he immediately began to feel better. Then even his aide was saying that he was TRYING to vomit, as if to prove a point. I wasn't so sure, although I recognise that their continued disbelief coupled with his rapidly increasing anxiety could have looked like it.</p><p></p><p>What really clinched it for me was one day towards the end of summer holidays, a week before the new school year, when he suddenly said, "If any kids bully me this year, I'll just walk away." I congratulated him on a good strategy and the subject was dropped. Half an hour later, he had severe nausea.</p><p></p><p>School phobia can be so crippling that they simply can't learn in that environment.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 47859, member: 1991"] Heather, don't be too embarrassed to tell US how many days she's missed. You said, "The SD thinks that despite the immense amount of school that difficult child has missed (I'm too embarrassed to say the number)..." difficult child 3 began missing a lot of school when he was 8. Each year he was worse, especially towards the end of each school year, and by the time he was 10 he literally missed about half the school year - over 100 days. It could have been as many as 150. And that's school days, ie five per week of school term, but spread out over the school year. Added to this, he was nauseous at school and getting sent to the sick room until they decided that he was bunging it on and refused to let him leave the classroom. That's when difficult child 3 began throwing up, often several times day, at school. At first vomiting got him sent to the sick room, where he immediately began to feel better. Then even his aide was saying that he was TRYING to vomit, as if to prove a point. I wasn't so sure, although I recognise that their continued disbelief coupled with his rapidly increasing anxiety could have looked like it. What really clinched it for me was one day towards the end of summer holidays, a week before the new school year, when he suddenly said, "If any kids bully me this year, I'll just walk away." I congratulated him on a good strategy and the subject was dropped. Half an hour later, he had severe nausea. School phobia can be so crippling that they simply can't learn in that environment. Marg [/QUOTE]
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