In the days following October 23rd I met with administrators at the school and I met with Addi's teacher. My heart grew heavier and sunk more with each person we met with. As we met with Addi's teacher and the school's Principal I remember being in shock how little sympathy they had. I remember wondering why they showed no concern. No caring. In fact, they were uncooperative in answering our questions. The blame began to subtlety shift to nobody. To nobody and to our daughter.
We filed complaints, we did all we could. I wrote up long complaints giving as much detail as I could because I believed that somebody, somewhere along the line of the teacher, principal, superintendent, school board... Anyone... would do the right thing.
Here I sit more than 2 months later. And no one... not a soul... has done the right thing. Instead I have witnessed outright lying, covering up, and corrupt ethics. It goes from the bottom on up to the top. I've been shocked.
We moved to this neighborhood so that our children could go to this specific school. We moved out of Round Rock ISD because we wanted our children to go to Leander ISD. We thought we knew what school was about. We had both gone to all grades of school, graduated in the top of our classes, and enjoyed school. School had been awesome for us.
I then realized, in early December that we could never send our children back to school. And my heart ached. I would wake up in the middle of the night and just sob because everything I had wanted my whole life, for my children, would never be.
One night around 2:30am, I woke up and cried to Bryan "I just wanted her to be a line leader, I just wanted to her be teacher's helper, I just wanted her to go to school." In his wisdom he replied "But you don't have control over that. Heavenly Father obviously has a different plan for our children. You don't have control over that." And I felt peace. And I knew that this would be a forever thing. Not just a Kindergarten thing. Not just an Addi thing. But homeschooling would be for all of our children, and it would be for every grade, and that it would be forever.