Today was Gab’s first day at her new school. I don’t think any of us could have wished for it to be any better than it turned out, she’s just in heaven, new town, new kids, the ‘fresh start’ seems to be just what was in order to bring her out of the rut she was in. Honestly after pulling her from her previous school three weeks ago it was more than time for her to get back into school. She’s always been a great student and had a great attitude about school, until the recent events and actions of a number of morons that reside in the county began to make her life miserable. Nothing quite like watching your brightest child go from happy go lucky and straight A’s (a couple of B’s sprinkled in), to failing across the board. The horrible feeling of being completely helpless of not being able to do something about it.
My efforts to help her sort through the Algebra problems alone were just ridiculous, of what I recall and the methods I use for sorting the problems out were either too simple and done in my head before I could explain it, or else far too complicated and I overwhelmed her with stuff she didn’t need to know.
We’re very grateful to the folks who helped us get her transferred to another school district, none of which were part of her former school. They knew three weeks ago of the transfer but wouldn’t bother sending the records over. Called ahead of time yesterday, told them I have the formal request document in my hand and verified that I could fax it to them and that the needs documents would be forwarded to the new school, told yup first thing, they’ll be there by 11am, the gal that handles that will be in at 10:30am. New school calls back at 11am says they have not received them. Wait a little longer….at 3pm call, still nothing, call the old school and get this for an answer “That’s not the way ‘I’ do things, they HAVE to be mailed”, of course the shit hit the fan then. Called new school explained the situation, it’s now 3:30, closing time for the school, their response, first class is at 8am tomorrow, have Gab here and I’ll make sure there is a class schedule waiting for her and we’ll sort everything out later, she needs to be in school. Got here there at 7:50, schedule was waiting as well as a student to show her around, off to work I went.
But alas Gab’s new school is fantastic, the staff is very courteous and actually have ears that work when you have a question. Hell they even communicate between departments! Everyone was aware of just enough of the circumstances and gave nothing short of 100% to ensure a super smooth transition. Gab is still bouncing off the walls, she’s ecstatic, even griped that tomorrow was Friday and the week would be over for school. Now THAT is my Gabbey!
Doc started her on a mid line antidepressant yesterday, it’ll take 3-4 weeks before it really starts working, but I think they will really help her in the long run. Her first real counseling appointment will be in 1.5 weeks, if things stay on their present course, and justice is brought down upon the perpetrators of the heinous acts, I think everything will work out just fine for Gab. I’m just glad to see her getting back to her usual bubbly self.
