of discretion and the decision to deny the petition or modify with regard to the young woman keogh gray so that the father my client william gregory rate could have primary allocation and decision making with regard to education and extra curricular activities for his older daughter kiera rate it was an abuse of discretion and against the manifest weight of evidence this is really a case about a young woman who  begged for a learning environment and opportunities and whose mother the petition susan ray is not able or willing to provide but whose father greg brain is able and willing to provide  a learning environment and q ssion that the child so desperately needs in society it's hard enough to get some children to learn to pay attention in school and to do well and here we have a young woman who has seen a dent in the world farmland community of france filling her one million county where not only does her father live but younger step siblings her grandparents uncles cousins all live and are involved in the education community they're focused on providing a positive learning in front and an area in a community where keir training after having experienced the schools and attending school with her cousins on her days off what we know about the high school well you can assume i think pretty fairly that in the public school you have the the same children who are in the junior or in the middle school in jefferson go all to the same high same public high school in champaign there's two high schools three middle schools and so you've got champagne central and champagne centennial but all the kids in the in that middle school are going to go to that same high school with because it's a combined i think it's greece goes straight into the high school and there is not separate feeder schools you've got the same children the same groups that are going in it's fair to say there wasn't evident on central high through because through the court system because of the various well all of the different issues that you are way too familiar with and the court could reverse and remand that for information and sort of a sped  schedule on that but the the other problem and the other issue so a lot of it was certainly on the educational environment and this was the other was really the relationships there are they are fork he'll break with her special extra work that's necessary with layla and then susan has an additional child from a subsequent relationship so she's got three kids at home she started her own business i think she's going to another job for  shortly before the trial she was living in the basement of her parents house that's where she had been living with the children nothing greatest learning environment and for a young woman like kiya in that with the needs to do and the desire to learn and perhaps seeing what her cousins what her sit step siblings have in rossville they actually find her in the eye the idea and the impression that there is better stuff out there and it's not like it's ice cream late it's a positive learning environment where the children where this classmates is fifteen now maybe in the freshman year of high school it's not can be quite fifteen although it's the same children that go straight through so it's not like you've got extra feeder schools going into the high school like you have in the middle schools but you've got a class size and the class environment and children who have been in the same school in the russell schools who've learned that we don't accept this low behavior we don't accept bulling we don't accept mouthing off and swearing we don't accept running around the science room scalpels in your hand it's an environment that has been taught and these children have learned it and it's an additional environment where in vermillion county and in rossville greg has his parents his dad who's been head of president the school board his mother continues to work there and has been a secretary for two thousand seven hundred and thirty years we've got cousins who are in that cookies it's sitting down to work on on their homework and it's not one of those things where you have to bribe the suzy's had to give you a trip to texas if you could go this school every day if you get to class on time this is an environment that  doesn't involve any problems this is what we do and this is what the cousins have learned and this is what jia congratulations for being so mature for such a young woman but understands there it's a more positive environment in a healthier environment and one in which she wants to learn again this isn't there were there this isn't any case like one where you've seen and like a white comfort hype of example where you have where one parent allows the kid to have because you get money for reading compared to suzy's environment where the tension is so high and live the relationship is so caustic between suzy and here that even writing her to read basic books that a little a young candidate a kid younger than q would should be reading she gets twenty five dollars for and doesn't even want to do it because she's so there's so much antagonism between mom and kid and it's these sorts of relationships as this sort of environment to allow children and you've got so many different planted or split families the children to be able to be with their siblings if the court had followed the limited guardian ad litum truculent nation and granted the motion you would have kiya on alternate weekends with layla and in the summer majority time with layla and the other weekend alternate weekend labor would come with greg and souci is with two of the live with greg and go to school in rasul when she came with susie she didn't say perhaps as many negative things or perhaps tried to talk more positively about suzy but still it was very clear that she wanted to live with greg and developmental delays and then discussions with not only damaged greg but my paternal grandparents i'm not sure if you talk with paternal uncle who's a math teacher in rossville but then obviously with here as well repeatedly with both with both parents bringing the child and she wants to live there and again it's because she wants to go to school there she's a better relationship she's very close with her father and has very serious issues with her mother and i was the court learn no he did not say that there were no you're right but it does appear to be sort of the definition of meet the definition of insanity to do the same thing over and over again expect different results because that's what we're doing with kiya by leaving her in the same st class or class where you had to have honors ability or you would be in it that they didn't notice tardiness and then if it was tardiness it may have been at least judge assume it the kind of thing where you're coming in the classroom in a way some teachers market is tardy others don't pay much attention to back with middle schoolers were beginning to move toward going to high school they testified that they sure they were concerned about her performance part of her performance was messing around with your phone and doing makeup in the classroom well that doesn't sound like maturity to me and it also sounds like unless you just assume the teachers follow the party line and say oh no our school is good those teachers taught me had a reasonable relationship with susan that they had very little if any contact with grace and they thought the she was salvageable and she was a victim of knife fights or the kinds of things she was describing to were filed now is the trial court permitted to take account of that in contrast a fairly member saying that schools are great rossville but that out with all due respect yes they are a allowed to do so but that wasn't really the complete evidence th yes so it's not a matter of well we've got a better deal here it's this deal here is so bad that there needs to be an alternative and we have a better view here that's correct and we urge him to make  the the tardies and and what it was also clear was suzy has refused to share information with greg and so when she went through with time when he was getting absences tardies of flunking out of school in school he prevented from the school they're getting information that there were some and great testified to that to having contacted them and the teachers saying oh i think one of the for teachers peers people with differing opinions problem solving skills relationship skills time management accountability living in the real world and somewhat of this truly lives that you have to do when you're struggling we don't always get do overs in the world and i think that in this case susie gets a she knows there's a lot more to learn and there's a lot more to in the face of greg undermining her it's called parenting the child is to raise your children to hopefully not disadvantage but to enable them the opportunity to do anything they want in are capable of the world it is not their job just happens to be your parents or your child's friend it is not to be the parent that the kids and lawyers need to avoid looking at things in such extreme terms such as this party has done everything correctly and this one has done out of everything and correctly and i presented with all of that evidence and determine it was a post case however it was going to rule in your client's favor so at this point are you school told her hunt there have been so many different things done by susie gregory the school absolutely myself kid would have been checking the cell phone act a teacher's  too much but it's really not the question isn't whether she's done every thing the question is whether she is doing you know a good job here for it and whether the alternative would be in her best harder because you absolutely have to get more involved with this person have more conversations with them then you do when the child is actually living in the same home and both parents are observing the state thing my point was th think the trial court rely very heavily now only to determine that here could succeed in this war but also to kind of determined that the teachers in the school the counselors in this school were really interested in helping us see they wanted her to succeed she was just one of many other kids that they're pushing through the doors that's not how they view here or their involvement with susi air and so i think when you're looking at credibility of witnesses and trying to balance things the objective testimony really and i don't wan the only boast but the main folks who have the experience and the education to be giving opinions or passing judgment on this i think the court rightfully laid that very heavily in its decision and said look these folks you know here think she can do well they want her to succeed and so there's no reason here for us to be making a change that's just based on speculation based on kind of this whole that she's going to do better in it and you know everything from a broad view of education i think it was clearly the appropriate decision we're not asking and my kind is into asking for a do over for the child isn't asking for do all the child is asking in fact begging for an opportunity the only opportunity she has the only childhood she has to have and to be in an environment that supports her education that supports her ability to learn and that focuses and provides an environment that will sustain her and sustain her desires to learn the evidence was that it was that the school that she has in the school that she's in is chaotic her mother is not available to be there those family support to be there to on school days to be able to help susie or sorry to be able to help here learn to do her homework and and have the sort of opportunities or or support that she needs to be able to do homework to understand it while in rossville she not only has again a supportive family environment but an educational environment that is so that is small enough to recognise when students and she young people have problems whether it's the bullying in the hallways of the classrooms whether it's the problems with the math or the science issues that they can in intervene that they can help out and they can provide the sort of wrap around that today's youth need it's not just about what's the best school this isn't a question of a private school of being in the chicago suburbs or nutria or something like that  compared to an inner city school although some of the descriptions of the lunchrooms in the classrooms were quite concerning with regard to jefferson school but it's also about limiting those disclosure who made those descriptions greg did on personal in a classroom or classroom if you stayed the whole day on a day where the classrooms were taking place at least one of the days was an open house day i believe that the testimony was that there were other days or other times when he went the that were not open house days but were days when his children were in school over in roswell and so he was able to come to to observe to meet with one of the teachers i think and and those that environment as well as what he had described to the guardian unlimited guardian ad litem was also of concern that they had environment the bowling that i had described for the limited guardian ad litum as well and it's as described it's that environment that is not completely absent in roswell but which is handled because the school is set up the classrooms are small enough and the environment is small enough and that th