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Old Oct 29, 2013, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Lillyleaf View Post
SO I'm applying for college and I had to tell them that I have been asked or forced to leave a school setting.

They want me to write "an explanation of the disciplinary violation, date, location of incident (institution, city, state, country), institutional disposition (date, outcome, disciplinary action taken), current status of institutional sanctions. In addition, please address what you have learned from this experience, how this has affected your life, and what you will do differently if given the opportunity to enroll at Illinois State. Please note that we may need to request additional information including permissions for access to institutional records." and send it to them.

That goes right into my mental health because each of those suspensions/ referral were directly related to suicide attempts.

I called my T no answer yet
I called the ADA They aren't taking calls for a few days
I called the admissions office, no answer and no email address
I called my HS councilor, no answer
I called the suicide hotline, told me to ask my T.

Can they do this too me? Must I always live in the past? Am I really that much of a danger?

I hope that the good people at Illinois State will pay more
attention to the suicide attempts (and the depression associated
with them) than to the consequences of them (suspension or
expulsion). If post-secondary schools are going to take the
phenomena of mental illness and the stigma associated with
mental illness seriously, your case sounds like an ideal way
for Illinois State University to start walking the walk (as
opposed to merely talking the talk about mental illness).

Good luck, Lilyleaf; may justice prevail.
Thanks for this!
Lillyleaf, notablackbarbie