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[quote=Anonymous]My freshman DD is seriously struggling this year at her base HS. She has an IEP and is enrolled in small Special Ed classes, but she still struggles to participate in school in any meaningful way. School is a huge source of anxiety for her, and she gets sick at the thought of going to school, or often hurts herself at school in an effort to be sent home. She avoids clubs, has no friends, and is pretty much drowning in every meaningful way.

I am working closely with the counselor, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker … you name it, I’m doing it, we still are drowning.

She is in the base school CSS site and staff are caring, but things aren’t working.  She hurts herself in class in order to be sent home, it’s so sad.

She is currently undergoing treatment for school avoidance at Newport, but I am seriously worried about what will happen when her treatment is done. I want to get her out of this school and into something else when treatment is done, what are my options? I desperately want her out of there.  I’ve looked at the website for the alternative FCPS schools, they sound scary to me - referrals for delinquency, violence, criminal behavior?   My kid is a very gentle soul.

Home school is not an option as I’m a single mom who works.

To be clear, her IEP is for anxiety and frustration, not learning Concerns. 
I also am generally a big proponent of FCPS schools in most situations, my older kids graduated there and had great success. It’s just not right for this one[/quote]

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