School Offers Readmission to Girl Battling Leukemia

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Source: CBS News

School offers readmission to girl battling leukemia

CBS/AP
Apr 26, 2015 8:23 PM EDT

DETROIT -- The mother of a Michigan girl dismissed from a Catholic school for not meeting academic and attendance standards during leukemia treatments said Sunday that her daughter has been invited back but will attend a public school for now.

Barbara McGrath told The Associated Press St. Joseph Middle School officials informed her that Rose McGrath could return to the Battle Creek school but postponed a meeting to discuss concerns until later this week to allow for "a cooling off period." Barbara McGrath said that her daughter is attending Lakeview Middle School and that she can't say whether Rose will return to St. Joseph until she determines if issues can be resolved.

"It sounds like they're not going to pass her anyway, even if she goes back," Barbara McGrath said of her 7th-grade daughter, who is in remission but still recovering from treatments for acute lymphoblastic leukemia diagnosed in 2012. "I don't see her being able to go back there and being successful."

The school wrote in a letter addressed to Rose's father and provided to the AP by the family that officials worked with her but absences "hampered her academic performance." It adds that the 12-year-old had attended 32 full days this academic year out of 134 days as of April 13, but Barbara McGrath says that doesn't include "numerous" partial days.

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[AuntPatsy]

1. So incredibly sad, the very ones who scream the loudest that life matters prove

So often how if there is no profit to be had they care not...

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2. Isn't this what a grade of "incomplete" is for?

Readmit her, but instead of failing her, give her a chance to make up what she missed over the summer. Yes, it sucks to have to make everything up, but I took an "I" grade in college for something less than this.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

3. I don't know enough about this to support either side

After all, she's been battling leukemia since 2012, and may be really slipping in her academic performance. (As might be expected.) Small schools generally don't have the resources to take on children with special needs, and in this case special needs means she should have had a home teacher, private tutors, on-line classes or whatever would have helped her.

I hope she has a complete recovery and long, successful, and happy life ahead of her wherever she goes to school. The sad fact is, though, whatever the reason, she will always feel that the people who should have been her support system let her down.