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Thursday, December 20, 2007A Bipolar PostCaller ID is a great thing. I love ignoring that call from the LA Times or Emperion Marketing, which usually come at dinnertime or late in the evening.
One call I kind of hate taking is the one from Red Rock Canyon School. If it isn't the scheduled therapy call at 3pm on Wednesday afternoons, it usually means Sarah is costing me money, or has kicked someone's ass. When I got the call last week Friday evening I was reluctant to pick it up.
The person on the other line was Dr. Bob. This is usually a sign that something has happened, and it had, but Sarah had nothing to do with it. Apparently one of the new students managed to hang himself in the shower. Dr. Bob had the awful job of having to call all the parents of children under his care and tell them about what had happened, and how devestated they are.
I feel sick for the parents of that young man. I'm sure they thought sending him to Red Rock Canyon School was going to protect him from doing this kind of thing.
I'm not going to rag on Red Rock Canyon School. I'm sure they feel like crap, but there must have been some sort of lapse on their part that may have made it a little easier for that boy to commit suicide. I just know this place has done a pretty good job controlling and helping someone I couldn't, my daughter Sarah.
This brings me to the happy-cheery part of this post! Sarah is probably 60 days away from coming home. She will get to do a home visit in about 2 weeks, then she will graduate from Red Rock Canyon about 5 weeks later. This program is designed to take about 9 months but my girl was having so much fun she hung out for 18!
We haven't figured out what we are going to do about school. She will still have two more years of high school left when she gets back, and we are not sure if she can handle the regular public school environment. On-line school sounds like too much freedom and too easy to screw up for a teenager, especially mine. I know the two college classes I took on-line were tough.
Does anyone have any ideas out there? How do those Spears girls handle school while working? Maybe I shouldn't ask.
Posted by Malathionman at 7:06 PM
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