I think I'm Transferring

Let's start off from the beginning of this dilemma: I had major corrective surgery for my cerebral palsy, we planned it and my teachers knew prior. I was in the hospital and rehab for four weeks total out of school three months. My school did not help me at all with my classes and I self taught most subjects because they wouldn't respond to our emails. I got back to school two weeks ago and they throw a test at me that I had self taught on in January I got a C! Then I found out a test for another class where the teacher didn't communicate with me gave me C as well! I went from an A and a B to two Cs. My mom and I expressed our concerns and nobody listened, instead they blamed me, "oh you should have gotten a friend to FaceTime into my lectures... I would've recommended to someone else to drop the class but you're a perfectionist so you wouldn't do that" I HAVE NO FRIENDS IN HIS CLASS! My other teacher told me nothing.. my case manager told me those grades don't matter and that I deserve them.. the hell? I'm sorry that I gave up half of my school year to better myself with a surgery that will change my life! How can they blame me?!

A C is a passing grade, right? I was in hospitals and rehab a lot during high school, one year I missed over 700 hours (of the approx 1050 school hours in a year) and I passed the year with C's and low B's by doing a lot of homework.. and next year I barely attended school and had no time to do homework and I had to repeat the year. There's no shame in failing because of a "higher power" (in this case, your surgery and rehab) interfered. It's commendable that you're passing the year - even if it's "only" with a C - despite everything.

I'm going to make a couple of assumptions and can only speak from my personal experience, but this story made me really upset for a lot of different reasons.

Looking at your profile, I see you live in Wisconsin, so I know you (should be) covered under Section 504. Not knowing how CP impacts your ability to access the curriculum, you may or may not have an IEP. It baffles me that knowing the amount of time you would be recovering that your team wouldn't have considered homebound instruction. Now, Wisconsin doesn't have any laws pertaining to homebound instruction, which is different than the state I live in. So it may have been a discussion and your school denied your request. Again, I'm not sure why they would.

Wait, I just re-read your post and saw you mention your case manager. Gather the pitchforks and torches, because this whole thing is ridiculous. I'd tell your parent to find an advocate familiar with Wisconsin law to bring to the meeting you need to have ASAP. Pretty sure your school is out of compliance.

I cannot have Cs no matter what it's just not how my life works. My achedemic future is everything basically and if I don't get Bs or higher my parents won't let me live it down and I become more stressed. My school should be helping me but instead the adults are bullying me calling me a "perfectionist" saying I'm overreacting and lying and no one will listen to me. Today my counselor ratted me out! To my case manager of all people and she called my parents just to insult me! She's mocking me and getting in my personal life and I'm not okay with it. If she actually wanted to helped she would've done something about the students rights violations but she didn't she's playing along.

There's a lot of recent information in the passage above about my situation. My mom tried to get the school to conform but nobody responded to her and neither will the DYI or our super attendant. Never in my life have I felt so alone, afraid, lost and almost hopeless..

So any school staff is going to talk to your CM about what is going on with you. As a CM, our job is to help you be successful in school, and to do that, we need information about what is going on.

I want you to take a step back for a moment to think about something. You didn't receive any instruction from a teacher for months and you're still passing. That's amazing! It speaks to your academic abilities. So are you being a perfectionist? A little bit, sure. No judgement from me, though, because I'm a perfectionist.

So at the end of the day, your school is probably looking at this as no big deal, you're passing, fantastic. If some of the kids on my caseload missed that much school, I'd be worried about them being retained. I get where they're coming from.

The part of this that bothers me, though, is that I can't see how they can justify you receiving FAPE if you had a medical reason for being out of school for as long as you were. But without reading your IEP or any prior notices, anything else I say would be speculation.

The feelings that you're describing about feeling lost and hopeless are understandable. I want to tell you that colleges don't really care about one test grade, but I don't want to invalidate how you feel either. I want to highly encourage you to seek out an advocate who can liaison on your behalf with the district. Next steps are stressful, but if you feel as strongly as you do about the grades, then you'll need to go down that road.

If you'd like, feel free to PM me to discuss more specific information. I'll certainly be happy to continue to support, but any other advice I give wouldn't be appropriate for a public forum.

is this a community college? they are more strict about medical issues that cause a leave of absence

It's high school and I have mild spastic and desplaysic (sorry about the spelling) cerebral palsy I'm 17..

They offer online high schools now

Not an option in my life..