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[quote=Anonymous]I need help moving on from my feelings. Perhaps some of you can relate. For those who've been in a school that's actively done harm to your child, how do you deal? Not harm due to ignorance or lack of resources, but honest to goodness callousness and ignorant hubris.

When your friends from school are fundraising for the school, posting raves on social media, etc...how do you deal? Their children are doing fine, so I get it. Yet it hurts! I want to scream and tell them all how awful this school is.

Worse, the school gets to keep tuition money for next year. Contract law sucks. Their callousness towards DC sucks.  (Think undetected seizures despite DC's very specific tic being on the medical action plan, fighting neuropsych's suggested accommodation for DC's profound giftedness, etc., not reporting an incident of self harm that a teacher witnessed, despite knowing DC has been diagnosed with major depression, and on and one.) That I gave them the benefit of the doubt for years, donated generously, and yet they haven't acknowledged, even a little, how they've failed our DC--that stings! They literally have letters from an MD and PhD stating DC should be in a different school. Yet they claim they not only are doing a stellar job but think DC will thrive next year. The new curricula will fix everything! (I'm not buying it.) Again, breathtaking chutzpah. It's the Kelly Ann Conway alternate truth talk that drives me insane!

We are moving to a new school and found others who've had the same experience with our old school. I know it's not just me, and that helps. But I can't stop thinking about our old school. When I sleep, when I wake in the middle of the night, when I'm cheering for my kids at soccer, all the damned time. If they'd just shown a little humanity, I would have moved on. I guess I've been lucky in life never to have encountered people like this.

I know I need to look forward. The money is gone. They are never going to say sorry.  Some people see them for what they are, but the world turns, and most will never know. Life is unfair, I need to accept it and move forward. We are incredibly lucky that we can afford it and found a better place. I should focus on DC's future, right? Why can't i?

I don't need tough talk. I beat myself up all the time about these irrational feelings. Anyone have advice or just similar stories to share? [/quote]

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