This girl is a recent orphan, a recent foster child and in a new school, as I understand it. We don’t know that she’s long been a problem student, that she isn’t interested in learning, or that she WANTS to slip through the cracks. She’s a KID, a troubled, orphaned, displaced kid. Gosh, wouldn’t anyone be troubled at such a sudden change in her life?
I’ve BEEN around foster kids, homeless kids and kinds from troubled homes. The ones who are successful at moving beyond their circumstances are the ones who have support and caring from the people around them, not the ones who are arrested and beaten when they’re really crying out for help. If you’ve heard of Antwone Fisher-he is a great example of someone who made it out of a rotten life due to the caring of others.
Saying all this girl needed to do is just…behave, or that people would just give up on her because she doesn’t care about learning, and that the system is broken in her case-that’s so short-sighted. There’s no indication she should be abandoned. Quite the opposite.