A response to an Impossible (ADD) situation
In response to a post in the ADDitudeMag forums, I wrote this. It's a journey. Learning to Love Myself (e.g., @ HAI L2) helps. :)
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I can relate. I myself (49) was diagnosed only a couple of years ago, and only really got testing confirmation a few months ago. I’m just beginning my journey with finding helpful meds. I’m finding ( Read more... )
1) You do something called an "R4 Affadavit" and declare yourself a private school (http://www.bayshoreeducational.com/start.html). We did that for Allegra's older sister, and she then took the GED (with final test results in the range of 96th to 98th percentile :^).)
2) You could sign Ree up for something like the K12 Online Public Schools: http://www.k12.com/schools-programs/online-public-schools, so you can have her do her last year from home.
3) I'm pretty sure that she's old enough (16) that she can take the CHSPE and leave early: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sp/.
4) If you felt really, really committed, you might be able to sign her up over at the East Bay School for the Arts (http://eba.schoolloop.com/) and drive her back and forth so she could get at least one year of sane education. You'd have to do an interdistrict transfer, but it's quite possible that you could pull it off. Last year when we were investigating that school for Allegra, they were still underenrolled as compared with their target (I think this is their 4th or 5th year in existence?), and they had some clear suggestions for how to apply by asking for specific arts programs that most of the public schools don't have. Or maybe there's a similar school closer to you, which would make it all a lot easier.
There are probably more as well. Please don't let Ree or yourself be tortured like this anymore.
((hugs))
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