Re: Menningers Experiences (Kim)

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Our school has been pretty good. At first we were excusing him.

The teachers and counselor knew what was going on. But the

assistant principal didn't. The policy is after 10 absences from a

class you lose credit. When we were approaching that we had a

meeting with the asst. principal and all teachers. Our therapist

was at the meeting via phone. It helped a lot. We decided to

start not excusing him, knowing they weren't going to not give him

credit. BUt they did start giving him detentions for missing.

THerapist wanted that and it worked for a while. But when he was

admitted to partial hospitalization for the last 3 weeks of school

they waived the remaining detentions.We had an attendance hearing

for him at the end of the semester and they granted him credit

because it is a medical condition. Having that meeting with the

therapist and the asst prinicipal before we reached the limit made

all the difference. Some classes didn't even require him to do the

final when he was in the hospital. I'd say be up fron with the

discipline administrator and have your therapist explain the

situation to them. Get them to see it as a medical issue.

Any other questions? I'd be glad to help.

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> I am wondering how your school is handling the absence issue, are

you having

> any trouble there? My daughter has missed 21 days since the end of

Sept. Are

> you having him excused or unexcused for these? We were excusing my

daughter,

> but I will need to start calling her unexcused after break. If I

call her

> unexcused 4 times in 1 semester she will lose her credit. Has your

pdoc or

> therapist told you how to handle this with the school? Mine has

decided we need

> to try the tough love approach as far as absences are concerned. I

hope things

> go better for your son soon. Kim

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> In a message dated 12/31/2005 10:48:17 AM Central Standard Time,

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> - our son is " stuck " in OCD probably 4-5 hrs a day. He

hasn't

> been able to leave the house except for school (missed 20 first

> periods this semester) , dr appts (missing some of those too now)

> and 3 family gatherings (2 hrs late to each) since Sept. OCD is

> controlling him. He can't fight it right now. It's tactile

> issues (clothes not feeling right) and many other issues.

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