Your thoughts and opinions, please

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Just curious?

Has anyone had to deal with the a special needs teacher that does not

understand when your other child is not in school. My daughter, Emma

(8yo), is in a special needs classroom part of the day for help with

reading. She is ADD and dyslexic. Her teacher gets upset and gives

her a hard time when she is not in school. Sometimes she is ill or

her high needs brother who is 5 (FG syndrome, PDD-NOS, Spina Bifida,

etc., etc) has appointments far away from home and we would not make

it back in time to pick her up so she misses school and comes with us.

Emma has missed 11 days of school this year. Is it really that much

for our situations? We have NO help and I am battling my own life

long health issue. Some days I am ssooooo exhausted I don't have the

energy to get up and do this all over again. I know that makes me

sound like a bad mom but I really am not. I give my kids 100% of

me.The all day therapy's, almost an hour each time I try and get my

son to eat food, at least baby food even. Teaching him basic living

habits takes forever. Don't get me wrong, I love my kids and wouldn't

trade them for anything. I want them to get a good education. The

school district we live in basically told us the special needs teacher

at the kindergarten building would not keep my son in her class

because she has never had a high need child before and is not trained

enough. So I am trying my best to teach him at home along the giving

him therapy when he is not at a therapy clinic two days a week. Maybe

all of this is why my marriage is failing and my husband has become an

alcoholic. How do you all get the strength to keep going and fighting?

I know it is a life long battle and the kids are worth it. I am not

complaining, just frustrated. What are your best solutions to the

constant changing world of education, laws and life?

Sorry for the long note.