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Gypsygirlmom · 11-20-2002, 09:54 AM

I'm just here to vent! So, don't mind me. My daughter 13 is BipolarII, Rapid Cycler, Mixed Episodes. Very high IQ. For 3 yrs. now I have been fighting the school to get help for her. Meetings after meetings, but nothing ever gets done. Its always a wait and see. So if we have a meeting at the beginning of the yr. she is getting all A's. Then they say she doesn't need the help, so we will meet again in a month or so. I told them in the fall I want a progress report every wk. so we can stay on her. Otherwise she gets so far gone with not doing work, losing work. It then becomes so overwhelming to her that she can't get out. Last yr. this time she did the same thing, started off great, then the crash & burn. Meeting today showed 3 F's, D's & a C. They say they were sending the reports home with her, she says they were to busy. OK, well we know this is her fault she didn't show us. But wouldn't you just think the school would have called?????? They know we've been very involved in her education. I'm just pissed. She is not a kid that is just not doing it. She gets to a point where she can't. I would think it was their responsibility to inform the parents. So now today they say, well we need to get the IEP in effect, so we can help her. NO DUH, you idiots, what have I been saying these past few yrs. Had they done this 3 yrs. ago, we would not be where we're at now. This is 13 yr. old that will still ask for a hug & kiss at night (when she's in the mood of course

) I'm just so angry at the school, the world, her for being bipolar, and myself for not being able to fix it and make her better. She told me last night that she was getting depressed, I know she's been up past midnight because she can't sleep. I really need God to take care of her. She could go so far if she wasn't self-sabataging herself. And hell, she listen to the school for 3 yrs. now just saying she was bad, and not doing her work. I'm sure that it a wonderful self-esteem booster. I'd love to homeschool her.....but I know she'd end up DUCK TAPED TO THE WALL by the end of the day! I have a headache. Thank's for letting me dump. I just wish I knew how to help her. I keep trying to do all the right things...and yet I am soo helpless.

11-20-2002, 09:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
Gypsygirlmom Paused Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Climbing outa da Black Hole Posts: 146	Fed up I'm just here to vent! So, don't mind me. My daughter 13 is BipolarII, Rapid Cycler, Mixed Episodes. Very high IQ. For 3 yrs. now I have been fighting the school to get help for her. Meetings after meetings, but nothing ever gets done. Its always a wait and see. So if we have a meeting at the beginning of the yr. she is getting all A's. Then they say she doesn't need the help, so we will meet again in a month or so. I told them in the fall I want a progress report every wk. so we can stay on her. Otherwise she gets so far gone with not doing work, losing work. It then becomes so overwhelming to her that she can't get out. Last yr. this time she did the same thing, started off great, then the crash & burn. Meeting today showed 3 F's, D's & a C. They say they were sending the reports home with her, she says they were to busy. OK, well we know this is her fault she didn't show us. But wouldn't you just think the school would have called?????? They know we've been very involved in her education. I'm just pissed. She is not a kid that is just not doing it. She gets to a point where she can't. I would think it was their responsibility to inform the parents. So now today they say, well we need to get the IEP in effect, so we can help her. NO DUH, you idiots, what have I been saying these past few yrs. Had they done this 3 yrs. ago, we would not be where we're at now. This is 13 yr. old that will still ask for a hug & kiss at night (when she's in the mood of course ) I'm just so angry at the school, the world, her for being bipolar, and myself for not being able to fix it and make her better. She told me last night that she was getting depressed, I know she's been up past midnight because she can't sleep. I really need God to take care of her. She could go so far if she wasn't self-sabataging herself. And hell, she listen to the school for 3 yrs. now just saying she was bad, and not doing her work. I'm sure that it a wonderful self-esteem booster. I'd love to homeschool her.....but I know she'd end up DUCK TAPED TO THE WALL by the end of the day! I have a headache. Thank's for letting me dump. I just wish I knew how to help her. I keep trying to do all the right things...and yet I am soo helpless.