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Originally Posted by kimbrly818
. She's told me for two weeks now she doesn't want to stay there. We are quiet close and I'm worried she'll start doing badly or think that we don't want her HOME all the time. I really feel like I just dumped my daughter off and gave her away, but I do keep those feelings from her so she doesn't pick up on it. I was doing quite well until she told me she didn't want to stay there anymore, because it's " not home" she misses coming home everyday and doing her normal everyday things. What would you do? I'm also deaf, and she and I are the only ones in my family that ARE so it's a very tight bond between us. I'm confused as what I should do or how I should handle it. At the moment I'm trying to get her to give it a little more time. But I'm not really getting far.
Please send me any advice experience in the matter, etc. Thanks!
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My daughter rode the bus daily for the first year, it's an hr ride each way. The home school district DOES have to pay for transportation to an from school. So if your home is close enough to the school for a commute bring her home. Of course it will take in IEP to set it all up but it can be done. Perhaps in a few years she might want to stay on campus, but until then the school does have to pay to transport her. If you are the one who ends up driving you are to be reimbursed on a per mile basis and the home district (or contracted transportation provider) must pay it. I always throught they should have paid me for my time to. LOL but no such luck.
I would like to add that my daughter began staying in the dorm one night a week, Wed. I believe from teh beginning. It was toward the end of the year that we added another day. The 2nd year she stayed mon-fri. and still does, while most kids go up on Sunday night whe leaves monday morning.