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user: You are replying to Audra Mcmaster about "school".

They wrote:
> Ok, here is the update to everyone who has been keeping up with me and
> the school.....
>
> As you all know by now David went to the doctor last week and he put
> him on the Paxil. Well it backfired and made him EXTREMELY hyper.
>
> (we are adjusting as we go to see what works for him)
>
> Wednesday was a really bad day for David. He was more hyper than he has
> ever been. His teacher called me at work and told me that he didn't
> bring his med. to school for that day and that for some reason he was
> worse than usual. I told her we were adjusting the medicine and that I
> would have someone bring the medicine up there, if that didn't work
> then I would come get him. She said she didn't want to send him home
> that she was working with him and she wanted to know if she could give
> him one lick just to show him that he does have to mind her. I told her
> to go ahead and see if that worked if not to call me back and I would
> come get him....I got no call (I had already talked to her several
> (about 8) times already.
>
> So when I got home he had some papers for me. Well, the principle had
> decided that he should be suspended. The note said he was suspended for
> BIZARRE behavior.
>
> I called the school this morning and had the teacher call me back. She
> said he was suspended because he would not settle down, so I asked for
> the principle. I then asked her why he was suspended when I had already
> offered to go get him instead of him getting into more trouble for
> something he had NO control over. She said she felt he should be
> suspended because he was acting like he was on drugs or something. At
> that point I lost it. I said, "Lady, he is on drugs". We are trying to
> adjust them and get them right so he doesn't act like this, but you
> people can't seem to get it into your heads that spanking him and
> suspending him is not helping. I then told her that there are federal
> law that they have to abide by and she said no they don't. She then
> said that her next step was to home school him and have a teacher come
> here to teach him. I told her that there was no way he was going to be
> home schooled and she couldn't force me to do it. She said "want to
> bet".
>
> By then I was loosing what little bit of grip I had on my temper and
> after a few more statements about the law got off the phone. A man I
> work with knows someone on the county board so he called him (he had
> heard every word that was said). I told him what the basic problem was
> and he said he was going to have someone from the top call me. SHE DID.
>
> I told her David had been suspended 5 times this year and had had
> numerous amounts of licks (in the 1st grade).  I told her that I had
> just gotten him off of suspention not a week ago and that now he was
> back on it after I had offered to come get him. She called the
> principle and asked her about the problems and she told her that he had
> only been suspended twice and he hasn't had licks but a couple of
> times.
>
> This is where we are. She is waiting on his records from the school and
> to get a written report from the school. She said that they have been
> lying to me all year about the special ed. They kept telling me he had
> to fail a grade to even be considered for it. She was not happy about
> that.
>
> I will keep you posted as I go.
>
> Audra

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assistant: *** Quoting Audra Mcmaster to All dated 05-09-96 ***
Go get 'em Audra, You got 'em by the balls.... Make 'em pay, and you might
wanna get a lawyer too.... Could help....
A fellow ADD'er...
....Charles
... Time slows if you're on the outside of the bathroom door.