[Kate*]

When you have a special needs child, you do what you have to do to get them what they need. If that means you have to take off work for the IEP meeting, you do it. You don't fight the school because "it doesn't seem fair" to you. It's about her, not you, that's what parenthood is, and yes you need to be involved even if you think it's pointless at her age! I can quote you back to you "Life isn't fair" and "Just choose to be happy" about it.


I may have been out of line, but so were you. I was provoked, and you were the self-identified "professional" in the room. I say self-identified because you kept throwing that around as a defense for yourself when all it did was tell me how much better you knew. You claimed at the end that my attitude wasn't what cost me everything, interactions like these make me doubt that.

Either don't take sides, or pick one and stick to it. You may not be that way, but HE IS and you're the reason we're here.