I am so freaking tired. High school is tedious. Day two was, however, much better for Bay then day one was.
Bailey went back to school yesterday and had about 80 panic attacks. She didn't want to go in, mainly because she didn't want to see Zach. After we made it in, we went to the band room and it took about 40 minutes of coaxing to get her through the door. After band she begged me to take her home. I said no. This was another recovery hurdle and we needed to jump it. Once she got to math she was calmer. She hasn't lost any of her mad math skillz so she was pretty excited to be there. Mr. Zoelmer helped to calm her down quite a bit. I actually got to leave and go get coffee! Yay me.
After math (ha, "aftermath"), was English. She was pretty worried about this class because the teacher had sent home a TON of homework. Bay was convinced that she would fail if she didn't do all of it. Well, I explained to Bay, the teacher doesn't know what deficits she has and what modifications to the curriculum need to be made so we just needed to calm down and take it a step at a time. It was still pretty overwhelming but she made it through.
After English was Social Studies. Another big stressor because of the ton of homework for that class. She had missed an entire unit - the teacher said it was the equivalent to an entire quarter of school. Well when we got there Mr. Fogelson said that he wasn't going to make her do that unit and that she could just start from the current one. She was elated.
So, today we had day two and since her teachers were able to alleviate some of the stress it was much smoother.
We met with the school Psychologist and the head of the Special Ed department about the mods and assistance she will need so that ball is rolling quite fast now.
Everyone has been so very nice. I really feel like we are getting a ton of support from the folks at the school. This makes it much easier.
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