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I was feeling hopeless...now I am just furious...
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<blockquote data-quote="Crayola13" data-source="post: 706998" data-attributes="member: 21066"><p>Has your daughter been in class? You'll probably get a letter from the school informing you of the truancy, especially if she misses more than ten days. The guidance counselor will request a meeting and you will be asked to explain your daughter's absences. The school will take into consideration your suspicions of drug addiction and may order her into rehab. Or, she might have to appear in juvenile court and the judge will order her into rehab. If she's injecting and won't go to rehab of her own accord, court-ordered rehab might be a good thing. The school will tell you to meet with a social worker, for which you've already made arrangements. Most school systems don't have truancy officers anymore. Our police department has a family crisis line.</p><p></p><p>I'm really sorry to hear that she might be injecting. I hope that isn't the case. Try to stay strong. Even though the police aren't taking this seriously, I would continue contacting them and reporting her as a runaway. You want to be able to show you went through all the proper channels. Police departments are desensitized to this type of thing because it's a never-ending problem they are faced with. It's easier for police to blame the parents than to do anything about these cases. Police have the legal right to arrest runaways, but they don't because they're overwhelmed. One of the parents at my school reported her son missing five times. Police found him, but they told the mom several times she would have to be the one to go pick him up. The fact that your daughter is making contact with you makes the police less likely to get involved. They don't consider her missing and endangered, even though the drugs and whomever she's around are dangerous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crayola13, post: 706998, member: 21066"] Has your daughter been in class? You'll probably get a letter from the school informing you of the truancy, especially if she misses more than ten days. The guidance counselor will request a meeting and you will be asked to explain your daughter's absences. The school will take into consideration your suspicions of drug addiction and may order her into rehab. Or, she might have to appear in juvenile court and the judge will order her into rehab. If she's injecting and won't go to rehab of her own accord, court-ordered rehab might be a good thing. The school will tell you to meet with a social worker, for which you've already made arrangements. Most school systems don't have truancy officers anymore. Our police department has a family crisis line. I'm really sorry to hear that she might be injecting. I hope that isn't the case. Try to stay strong. Even though the police aren't taking this seriously, I would continue contacting them and reporting her as a runaway. You want to be able to show you went through all the proper channels. Police departments are desensitized to this type of thing because it's a never-ending problem they are faced with. It's easier for police to blame the parents than to do anything about these cases. Police have the legal right to arrest runaways, but they don't because they're overwhelmed. One of the parents at my school reported her son missing five times. Police found him, but they told the mom several times she would have to be the one to go pick him up. The fact that your daughter is making contact with you makes the police less likely to get involved. They don't consider her missing and endangered, even though the drugs and whomever she's around are dangerous. [/QUOTE]
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