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walkitoutA. is at Fusion for her first day; we are very excited and hopeful.
Meanwhile, I finally emailed the counseling office at ABRHS again to try to finalize the withdrawal process.
I had sent the counseling office this email on March 20:
“We’ve been working through both identifying some neurological problems she has been having and also finding a different school for her which we think will be less triggering for the problems she has been having.
Today, we enrolled her at Fusion Academy Burlington. We do not yet have a start date for her, but I expect we’ll be figuring that out over the next few days.
We’re not really sure what the process is at this point, but we understand at some point we’ll be withdrawing her from ABRHS but we do not want to withdraw her from special ed.
I’m not really sure what my next couple of days are like. They are currently open, but if we hear back from the neurologist about the results of the EEG, that could change; also, if we have an appointment happen with the new school that could change.
Please let me know how I can help this process go smoothly for everyone.”
The next day I got this response:
“Thank you for reaching out! I am cc'ing here our counseling support staff, xxx and xx, who can assist you with the withdrawal process so it goes smoothly for you all and especially for A. I am sorry to hear she is experiencing neurological problems and hope that things get better!”
And that was the last I heard from them.
In the event, I didn’t have an official start date for A. until Tuesday (of this week) and there was no school at ABRHS on Wednesday (and we were in transit on Tuesday anyway), so I punted until today on poking the school about the withdrawal process. I emailed all three of the people in the counseling office, sat and thought for a moment, noticed I had an extension for the counseling office, and called it. I got xxx, and said, how do I do this, and she was, have your student go fill out the form. I’m like, she hasn’t been there since March. And then xxx says, well, the usual process is to have the student go fill out the form. I just let the pause stretch because, I mean, what, time machine requirement now? On brand as a requirement. I ask if I should come in, and that doesn’t get a better response — something like, you should have told us sooner, and I’m like, _I sent the department email on March 20_, and have not yet heard back and you should have that in your email on March 21.”
Anyway.
Registrar — who had been _awesome_ about rapidly turning around the transcript for the initial application to Fusion early on in this process — called me back, and was generally easy to deal with, and then called me back again to say, drop off the stuff at the front desk, fill out the form there, I sent the official transcript to Fusion and removed A. from PowerSchool. Which, you know, is really all I was looking for here.
As I noted to the Registrar on the first of those two phone calls, I’m not at all sad about pulling my daughter out of a school that pulls shit like this. How overwhelmed are they, over there, one has to ask, but one does not have to stick around for the answer.
ETA:
So, I went into the school and the form was sitting there but it was super unclear what all I was supposed to do at this point. Apparently, withdrawal from school forms really are signed primarily by the student? I’m just like, aaaanndd even when they have an IEP? I mean, the whole thing feels like some weird bad joke of a process. There _is_ a line for the parent to say, “I know my kid is doing this.” But what a ridiculous thing.
Anyway.
I was sent to the library with the form to drop off the Chromebook, stylus and charger. The librarian nearly left the charger at circulation, but I was like, you’ll want that too, right? She was trying to find the stylus without telling me, but I figured it out and handed her that box. She was happy about that. We took them back to someone in another back room at the library, and _that_ person was much younger, and quite clearly used to this process not going well which honestly cheered me enormously. And obviously, people were happy to get the stuff back which, predictably, does not always happen.
Then it was off to counseling with the textbooks and the form, and then I checked out of the visitor log at the front desk and left. I _did get it all done in a single trip_, which was my primary goal in this whole fucking outing. I had not been back to the school since that meeting in the vice principal’s office and intended to minimize my time there because I just do not have the self-control to not say what I’m thinking when I’m there, and that’s basically What the Heck is Wrong Here I Do Not Remember You All Being This Incompetent Before.
I’ve got so many questions about why.
Meanwhile, I finally emailed the counseling office at ABRHS again to try to finalize the withdrawal process.
I had sent the counseling office this email on March 20:
“We’ve been working through both identifying some neurological problems she has been having and also finding a different school for her which we think will be less triggering for the problems she has been having.
Today, we enrolled her at Fusion Academy Burlington. We do not yet have a start date for her, but I expect we’ll be figuring that out over the next few days.
We’re not really sure what the process is at this point, but we understand at some point we’ll be withdrawing her from ABRHS but we do not want to withdraw her from special ed.
I’m not really sure what my next couple of days are like. They are currently open, but if we hear back from the neurologist about the results of the EEG, that could change; also, if we have an appointment happen with the new school that could change.
Please let me know how I can help this process go smoothly for everyone.”
The next day I got this response:
“Thank you for reaching out! I am cc'ing here our counseling support staff, xxx and xx, who can assist you with the withdrawal process so it goes smoothly for you all and especially for A. I am sorry to hear she is experiencing neurological problems and hope that things get better!”
And that was the last I heard from them.
In the event, I didn’t have an official start date for A. until Tuesday (of this week) and there was no school at ABRHS on Wednesday (and we were in transit on Tuesday anyway), so I punted until today on poking the school about the withdrawal process. I emailed all three of the people in the counseling office, sat and thought for a moment, noticed I had an extension for the counseling office, and called it. I got xxx, and said, how do I do this, and she was, have your student go fill out the form. I’m like, she hasn’t been there since March. And then xxx says, well, the usual process is to have the student go fill out the form. I just let the pause stretch because, I mean, what, time machine requirement now? On brand as a requirement. I ask if I should come in, and that doesn’t get a better response — something like, you should have told us sooner, and I’m like, _I sent the department email on March 20_, and have not yet heard back and you should have that in your email on March 21.”
Anyway.
Registrar — who had been _awesome_ about rapidly turning around the transcript for the initial application to Fusion early on in this process — called me back, and was generally easy to deal with, and then called me back again to say, drop off the stuff at the front desk, fill out the form there, I sent the official transcript to Fusion and removed A. from PowerSchool. Which, you know, is really all I was looking for here.
As I noted to the Registrar on the first of those two phone calls, I’m not at all sad about pulling my daughter out of a school that pulls shit like this. How overwhelmed are they, over there, one has to ask, but one does not have to stick around for the answer.
ETA:
So, I went into the school and the form was sitting there but it was super unclear what all I was supposed to do at this point. Apparently, withdrawal from school forms really are signed primarily by the student? I’m just like, aaaanndd even when they have an IEP? I mean, the whole thing feels like some weird bad joke of a process. There _is_ a line for the parent to say, “I know my kid is doing this.” But what a ridiculous thing.
Anyway.
I was sent to the library with the form to drop off the Chromebook, stylus and charger. The librarian nearly left the charger at circulation, but I was like, you’ll want that too, right? She was trying to find the stylus without telling me, but I figured it out and handed her that box. She was happy about that. We took them back to someone in another back room at the library, and _that_ person was much younger, and quite clearly used to this process not going well which honestly cheered me enormously. And obviously, people were happy to get the stuff back which, predictably, does not always happen.
Then it was off to counseling with the textbooks and the form, and then I checked out of the visitor log at the front desk and left. I _did get it all done in a single trip_, which was my primary goal in this whole fucking outing. I had not been back to the school since that meeting in the vice principal’s office and intended to minimize my time there because I just do not have the self-control to not say what I’m thinking when I’m there, and that’s basically What the Heck is Wrong Here I Do Not Remember You All Being This Incompetent Before.
I’ve got so many questions about why.