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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher and unfortunately counselors are a mixed bag. Some are good. The ones at my school, I don’t think so. I had kids last year who ended up failing for the year and these are kids I was flagging to their counselors in Q1 as high risk for failing. Nothing was done that I ever saw. Even yesterday a counselor emailed teachers that one of the students is failing all their classes and can we do XYZ. Multiple teachers responded saying check the contact logs, we HAVE done XYZ, and if you’re a counselor noticing a kid is failing all classes you run it UP the chain and intervene, you don’t run it back down to individual teachers who have already done what they’re able. So no, not all counselors are super helpful but OP is the parent and she knows her kid is failing so it’s time to set up meetings to discuss what all the teachers are seeing which can then help determine the issue. Perhaps a child study is in order but nobody will know unless the teachers can confer together to try to establish common patterns they see that are affecting this child turning in work. This does not happen without robust parent involvement so get in there OP. We cannot do for you what you the parent has to do. [/quote]

I am the earlier poster who got no support from APS until DC was failing every subject and had to be partially hospitalized for depression. I did EVERYTHING you suggest, and WMS did nothing. The school's own study showed that DC had ADHD - the same study now being used as justification for the interventions DC was finally given at YHS after the partial hospitalization - and WMS denied DC services and did NOTHING. I don't know how APS gets away with it.[/quote]

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