Yeah - I have discussed the oh so warm and fuzzy feelings we have about this school here before. Trust me I would not want DD here for even 5 minutes but the district refused to provide the needed spec ed services if we enrolled her at the lovely little private we found that would have been perfect for her. Yeah they use "safety" as the excuse but it's really all about this terrible principal. She is wholly unqualified for her job, never spent a minute as a classroom teacher, knows little about child development and applies even less than that to operating the school, sees the students as little more than "data points" and the parents as obstacles to her education factory approach rather than as partners in creating an educational community. She cannot see anything outside of her little box and grasps onto control for all she is worth. A kid like my DD who doesn't fit into a box is an issue to be resolved or expunged. It is the child and/or her disabilities and gifts that must be twisted like a pretzel to fit into this woman's world view.
Yeah - I feel just peachy each morning sending her off to this environment. It is shocking - simply shocking I tell you - that DD would have developed an anxiety disorder in this type of school environment. The fact that one by one each of the friends she has had since preschool who attend the same school are also being diagnosed with anxiety? Just a coincidence of course...
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