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What did your parents say?

Long-ass explanation incoming!

Spoiler below!

My mother said that, besides the excessive swearing, she agreed with what I was saying. Hell, the letter itself was inspired mainly by what my mother told me when we were sitting in the car, parked behind the school the day I was officially withdrawn. She asked me to remember the IQ testings I had done the summer prior to enrolling in Burris(the school I'm talking about). Well those IQ tests were conducted by a professional who used the data he received to write a paper on me and my learning style, which my mother gave to Burris so that they could understand my situation and better adapt themselves to not only teach me, but other students who may have my learning style. See, Burris was a laboratory school; they conducted experiments on their children to see what teaching methods were appropriate, and because of this they were ahead of public schools in that they were given a larger budget to develop new means of education for the state. This is why we were hopeful about my enrollment, to give myself and others with difficulties like mine a better chance.
So it was odd when I wasn't given any specialized help. The only way the school actually realized I had ADHD was because the Student Teacher of my English class confronted me about my tendency to not turn in homework. She made an appointment with me after school(English was my last period) to discuss the problem with me. At first, I told her it was because I didn't care; which wasn't true, but since I had had a very unfortunate experience in another alternative school, I was prone to thinking of ADHD as nothing more than an excuse. She told me that she didn't believe me, because she and I were friends: we'd talk after school about plays and works of literature, and she was very fond of me, me being very young and interested in the big books(reference). She knew that I had a love of literature and learning, and so I was forced to tell her about my ADHD. Surprised was I to hear that she understood and wanted to help me with my troubles. She then notified the school, and I was given additional help. It wasn't solving my troubles, but was helping me cope with them, a little.
This was when the first semester was more than half over. That's how my mother realized the school hadn't even read the papers she'd given them, regarding my education and whatnot. In their arrogance, they'd thrown away a golden opportunity to help me and others with similar difficulties. That, my dear Watson, is why I was and still am upset.


And since you don't seem to know, I'm 15. I left that school not a month ago. To explain why I didn't correct you when you initially stated that I was 19: I thought it fun to play along, and since you probably got that idea from me in the first place, I figured it only right that I didn't contradict myself.

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I smell nice parents.
Why weren't you home schooled, go at your own pace, pick your own optional materials and whatnot.

I am. . . right now. Like, this second. I'm allowed to spend much of my time on the internet, since the rest of my day is spent willingly memorizing the dictionary, or writing essays on the social points demonstrated in American Psycho, for the hell of it.