Your thoughts please?

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I just talked to the school about 's absences. School has been in

session 49 days and she's been absent 14 days due to illness (I don't know

if that accounts for missing Friday last week and yesterday and today for

the stomach flu) and tardy 12 days. She's been sleeping 12-15 hours a day

since starting school and she is dead to the world when she has those days

and its pointless to even try waking her up. She just NEEDS the sleep. That

leaves 23 days where she was not absent or tardy (she misses half the day

due to sleeping when tardy she's asleep between 8-9pm and needs to be at

school at 9am but doesn't wake up until 10-11am). I've pulled her from PE

and any activities that burns a lot of calories since she had started losing

weight which was causing access issues for SCIG since she's already rail

thin and that helped a lot with the sleeping issue but on the days where its

ignored.. she sleeps 12-15 hours. She's already sleeping 9pm to 8am on good

days and that's dragging her out of bed. Before I enrolled her in school she

would sleep about 8 hours a night and be fine. She LOVES school.

I'm also hesitating on pulling her because she LOVES the after school

academic enrichment program which is about 2 hours a day. I just called to

find out if she would still be able to attend if I switched her to an out of

district public school and learned that no she wouldn't but its a moot point

because she's getting kicked out in Dec because they misunderstood there

grant and thought it was for all district kids when it fact it was limited

to kids at that school site which she doesn't attend anyway so all the kids

who don't attend that school are getting kicked from the program in Dec.

(giving the parents 2 months to find other childcare options since it runs

until 6pm like daycare)

I know I am teetering on a truancy officer showing up so I am worried about

that. My concern is that age old argument of socialization. We HS'd for 3

years, the only support here for HS'er is if your far right wing religious

homeschoolers which we are not (were not even Christian which makes it even

harder to get accepted) so there's no chance of joining either of the 2

HS'ing groups. The one group we mesh with is an hour away and the gas money

to go every week is just not in the budget plus outside of the park days

there we would have to fork over money for activities. So we'd be facing

social Siberia again. I mean there's story time at the library 1x a week but

that's hardly enough for the super social kid and I can't afford other

classes like dance or what ever. There are neighborhood kids but I do not

want her playing with them (which is why I put her in the afterschool

program to limit her exposure to those kids), they literally represent all

the reasons someone would want to homeschool. Horrible kids!

So, what would you do if you were in this situation?

*who's losing her mind at the thought of going back to HS'ing and

dealing with fighting kids ALL DAY LONG, not to mention getting school work

done

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