30 Days With My Schoolrefusing Sister Updated -

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The system is not built for healing. The system is built for attendance. You will be punished before your child is helped. We had to hire an educational advocate (cost: $500) to explain Lily’s documented anxiety disorder. The school backed off, but the damage was done. Day 18: The Grandmother Visit My well-meaning grandmother showed up unannounced. She marched into Lily’s room and said, “In my day, we went to school with polio.” Lily had a full-blown dissociative episode—she stared at the wall, unblinking, for an hour. 30 days with my schoolrefusing sister updated

I almost cried in the kitchen. But I played it cool. “Okay. What would need to be true for that to feel possible?” Last updated: [Current Month, Current Year]