Amber Lavigne

The community therapist that I was working with was working very closely with me, was being very honest and open with what was going on with my daughter.

You know, but this is a therapist that I sought out within the community, which I tell parents all the time, if your student or your child needs help and they are in a public school setting, please go find a community therapist.

Don't enlist the school social workers to help with this stuff because a lot of them are very young and not as well trained as a lot of the community therapists and you just have more options.

At first, they expressed some concern.

And it was a Friday evening when I sent the initial email.

So they met with me on Monday.

And so pretty quickly, they reacted.

In hindsight, in the email, I mentioned a binder.

And the principal called me on Saturday.

And she expressed concern with what the binder contained, as if it was a three-ring binder like you would find in a school setting.

In hindsight, I think that was her trying to buy some time to try and

rally her people to figure out how to cover their tracks.

But in the moment, I thought it was a genuine, like, what was in this binder?

I think she knew what I was talking about immediately.

They met with me on Monday, expressed great concern, met with the social worker on Tuesday.

By Wednesday, they were telling me that the social worker didn't do anything wrong.

And at that point, I had pulled my daughter from school.

And now here we are.

Sure.

I feel very strongly that I need to protect her privacy, but I can speak to our relationship.