She's trying her best don't you see? She's shown small improvements, did you catch them? Are you so focused on your "Mold", that you failed to note, today her writing was just a little bit better, she was able to answer your questions just a little bit more. You talked of improvements throughout the year, did this test that she just took, turn that all into a lie? Why??? I thought I helped you understand that she is special, she does not perform like others do, so why didn't you stop comparing her to others, and recognized her improvements, no matter how minute?

    Are you so wrapped in the prejudices of your mind, that because she looks and functions like the other kids, she should be just like them? Even by your own admission she is "bright", but you constantly fail to remember her specialness gives her problems to do things your way, why did you never compromise and try your best to see her special talents and worked with her to bring them out? Did you feel it was too difficult to do? Did you feel her specialness was made up and she was just another kid? All because to you it appeared that she was supposed to be like your "Mold".

    Perhaps her inconsistencies with her performance were due to the fact that she felt that nothing she could do would make you approve, so unless she was in the best of spirits, she kept the part from you that I as her mother, and others around me see... All because of rules and regulations, the irony of it all is frustrating... This system is supposed to assure that all children get an education equally, yet we constantly close our eyes and deny that some kids don't fit the "Mold" and a different approach is needed for them, even if to us they look the same as any other kid, or even in other areas are "bright". Why is this system so inflexible? Yet we are ever so ready to bring in more adults into our correctional system, who fell through the cracks as kids in your system, all because you failed to hear or acknowledge their cries, just because they didn't fit your "Mold"...

    Those who did not go into that correctional system, still feel incarcerated in their minds, regardless...

     Just like the person my daughter calls "mom". Although now at least she's slowly picking up the pieces of her life and trying to make something of it...

     Teacher, teacher don't you see it breaks my heart each time I meet with you. I love my daughter and want her to succeed and I know she is capable of it if you know how to work with her, and bring that side of her out. Her behavior in class most of the time especially after treatment, bore witness to the fact she could be a good little girl, and she was. You yourself said she was "Good as Gold" several times. From the beginning I gave you information on how to help her and even trusted that you accepted her specialness. While you said you grew accustomed to some of her ways, things still did not get through to you. It would have been easier to me, to see your point, had she been a troublemaker all throughout the year, but she wasn't, not even more than the rest of the children... Who incidentally happen to fit your "mold"...

     Teacher, teacher, don't you see I as a mother am frustrated and hurt, especially since I let you know from the beginning that she is...

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