The social services ladies came today.\u00a0 They were pretty professional, in that they asked the questions the law requires them to ask and nothing else.\u00a0\u00a0 They said the job of inspecting the three families in this division has been knocked around with nobody really knowing who should do it, until finally it landed on their desk.\u00a0 They don’t know if they will ever be expected to do it again, or if they are the right people.<\/p>\n
In retrospect, the only thing that is raising my hackles was them asking me if we ever thought of taking Antonia to a child psychologist.\u00a0 The reason I’m upset is not because they asked it, specifically.\u00a0 It’s to be expected, as it’s a standard solution here.\u00a0 Believe it or not, lots of kids just don’t seem to be too happy in school!\u00a0 I just feel I did a really bad job of explaining why I don’t agree with defining a child as in need of medical help because of it.\u00a0 School is not so right and wonderful that only a psychologically abnormal child wouldn’t deal with it.\u00a0 Not by a long way.\u00a0 I’m still explaining it badly.\u00a0 Oh well…<\/p>\n
As far as I know, we will never hear anything back from this meeting.\u00a0 It is just an information collecting exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The social services ladies came today.\u00a0 They were pretty professional, in that they asked the questions the law requires them to ask and nothing else.\u00a0\u00a0 They said the job of inspecting the three families in this division has been knocked around with nobody really knowing who should do it, until finally it landed on their … Continue reading The Social Services Visit<\/span>