It's Everyone Else

CC's school is making me crazy.  They are treating me like the ogre foster mother instead of respecting me as her parent.  Instead of calling me when they thought she was missing after school they called her case worker.  Instead of calling me when she posted suicide thoughts on the internet (of which I was completely aware and worked through with her & her therapist) they called her caseworker.  Instead of calling me when they thought she should see a specialist for allergies they called her caseworker.  It is so disheartening to feel unappreciated by outsiders when you are doing so much for a child. 

Additionally, CC can be very sneaky when it comes to figuring out ways to get out of class and instead of seeing through this and sending her back to class with a band aid they let her sit in the nurses office, sit in the guidance office, sit in the main office.  I think that at this point in her life she needs to get a little bit more of a "suck it up and deal" attitude.  Just a little bit.  She is in a loving home, she has  two therapists.  I just need the school to teach her and not act like they are doing me a big favor by "letting" her go to school there.

I don't know why this situation is consuming all of my thoughts.  It's one thing if a kid doesn't appreciate you, they should have to, but for the adults in her life to not appreciate that she is in a caring home, when she hasn't been in the past, is discouraging.