What are we, as a country, doing to our children?  I have had two student leave this week because of housing problems!  People are being evicted or leases are not being renewed so the owners can foreclose?

I am losing another student now.  This time, it is a student with severe behavior problems when he is not medicated.  I have had to tolerate a load of crap and now he is on medication, he is totally different.  I invest in these children.  Maybe I shouldn't but I love kids.  A Lot!  This little boy is settled in school, getting his medication, receiving love from every direction, and now they are moving because the owner wants to get out from under.   He is finally successful in school and now they are moving again.

That isn't the worst part...The kids will live with their uncle for a while and Mom and Dad will be homeless and living beside the canal.  They have no place else to go.  I explained that there are services that can help them but she just wants to go back to California.  She knows her way around the system there better than here.

This is a child who has been thrown out of 7 schools so far!  He has even been sent to a special behavior school before.  I worked very *** his behavior and education.  He is succeeding.  Will we lose all that now?  Will the new teacher care as much as me?  I know there are teachers who care...I see it all the time.  But, they didn't care enough to help him in those other schools.  They just threw him out.  He wasn't on medication when he came to my class.  It took 2 full months to get him there.  Will California respect that decision?  Will they continue the meds?

He had already gone up an entire reading group and is on his way to benchmark.  This was a severely intensive child before.  I can't believe I am losing him.  I can't believe that people think more or making a buck than the fact that they are putting people out of their home.  Maybe this isn't the entire story because I wasn't there.  But, I don't want to keep losing students.  I feel they are mine for the year and people shouldn't interfere in that.  Not even the parents.