Back in (October I believe) my doctor determined that I should be on homebound instead of going to school. (Homebound is where they send a teacher to your home because you're unable to go to school for whatever reason.) I have a mood disorder, and he determined that school was interfering in my treatment. So he filed the papers for me to be put on homebound.
A few days later my mom called the school to see what was taking them so long. They told my mother that I'd been approved for homebound by the school board, and that they would arrange for a teacher to be sent to my home. They said to wait and they would contact us back within (a week I think is what they said.)
Well about a week later, my mom called to see what was up. She was unable to get anybody to really tell her anything, but they left it at the fact that they just didn't have it straighented out yet.
A few more days went by, and she tried calling again. When she could get ahold of someone, they didn't know anything and other times, she couldn't get them to answer in the first place. My mom kept trying and trying at least once a week and never anything. A few days before Christmas this woman called me and told me that "they were not going to send me a homebound teacher, because I was already failing and it would be a waste of time." She said she had talked to my teachers, and they said there was no way to recover my grades.
So why is this a ripoff? Because I WAS APPROVED for homebound, they said they would sent me a teacher, and never did. The fact that they wouldn't send me a teacher did not change the fact that school was interfering in my treatment. So I was unable to go to school during the time that they wasted. So the reason I was failing, was because they never bothered to send me a teacher so I could do my work. Think about it, I was out from almost the beginning of school until almost Christmas, and I was never able to get a teacher. No wonder I was failing, because I didn't have a teacher. Then they turn around and blame it on me!
The woman who called me didn't even have her facts straight! She told me that they had "already been through this" with me, and that I was on homebound the year before. I was NEVER on homebound prior to the 11th grade. Ever. I told her this and she goes "ummm, you want to back up and tell me that again." And so I did. So she says "we have you documented right here that you were on homebound from (I don't remember the dates she said.)"
You know what's funny about this documentation that she claims to have? I wasn't even ENROLLED in school during those dates. I had dropped out of school because it was interfering in my treatment! At the time I wasn't aware I was elligible to go on homebound, which is why I dropped out. So they can't honestly provide any proof that I was on homebound when I wasn't even enrolled.
I am very mad about this. Unimaginably mad. I was sure that I'd finish high school, even if I had to do it at home. My mom isn't elligible to homeschool me or she would. So once more I had to go in and make everyone think that I was a complete failure and drop out of school. I'm now trying to request an exemption of rules so that I can take my GED. I got accepted to culinary school upon completeion of my GED. I'm not a failure, and this was NOT my fault.
I will rise above the situation they put me in, but nonetheless, I'm still very angry about it and I wish I could afford to sue the hell out of them for that.
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