That girl and her mother are the most pathetic examples of self made victims I've seen in a while. No wonder the father lives in Peru. I'll bet these two douches are a joy to live with.

According to a psychiatrist and psychologists who have evaluated her, she suffers from an emotional disorder called school phobia, or school refusal.

Hm. I believe that I suffer from work refusal. Time to apply for benefits.

FTFA: Rebecca said she has only one friend in Palmerton.

I WONDER WHY.

Wow she's 'afraid" of school but she can go to a boarding school and go on trips to Toronto and NYC? I'm calling bullshiat.

Keep this in mind the next time someone waves statistics around showing how much public schools spend per child.

All that money and she still can barely write and do basic math?

That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.

I have a bullshiat phobia, and this reeks of it.

This calls for immersion therapy. It's an effective treatment for phobias in most people.

the fail is strong with this family. i'm speechless. teen magazines? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

phobias are easier to treat than a cold. a few hours of CBT based exposure and she's cured.

Payment schedules call for her to pay about $35 a month through the year 2037.

Serves you right, biatch. The girl is 17 and can only do basic math.

The kid has school phobia, but they used the money to send her to modeling school and boarding school.

Methinks this child will never live a normal, productive life with a mother like that.

/Sad.

My ex's school had a kid with "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity" or some such crap. The story was that she couldn't go in the school building because fumes from the carpets and plastics would make her sick. The parents lawyered up and the school was forced to pay for a teacher to go to the kids home and tutor her. The parents (unemployed--on disability of course) smoked in the house and it was filled with a noxious cloud of death.

Your tax dollars at work.

Kill them all with fire.

Am I the only one who hates the term precious little snowflake?

Seriously, go fark yourself if you do. I hate you and wish for your death.

This is BRILLIANT. It's district-funded home schooling.

Oh and in one year, will she be hot?

She's got no class.

"sh*t i dropped out of the 6th grade, where's MA muney?"

Home schooling did work for that one guy's wife, didn't it?

I second the immersion therapy. Let the little snowflake cry it out.

I think it was on CBC a couple of months ago where they interviewed this kid who just absolutely refused to go outside, in cars, etc, like she was just genuinely scared of the outside world. That for me seems like a better reason than this bullshiat.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else...

BBRModitha: Am I the only one who hates the term precious little snowflake?

Seriously, go fark yourself if you do. I hate you and wish for your death.

I hate vague continuity.

So, the mother inadvertently traumatizes the child when she was in kindergarten, and now we have to pay for this?

Sounds to me like the child is the alpha dog in that household. Sorry mommy, but you are just a pawn in the game of life.

FTFA: School phobia is a medical condition

School phobia is as much a medical condition as I am a real doctor. I, however, do remain quite funky (James Brown funky, not Ted Kazinski funky.)

Anytime I didn't want to go to school and said I was sick or whatnot, the answer was 'Okay, and you're still going so finish getting ready.'.

School Phobia? Damn! I wish I'D thought of that!

This is an appropriate use of the "snowflake" meme. This thread has my approval.

I predict in the future that she will be relegated to the kitchen who is married to a rich husband. She will have breast implants, botox, and a $3,000 monthly shopping allowance.

RTFA twice through, and am confused. Was there a point to it? The only thing I could find was that someone in the financial area of the school was angry for the spending of money. That and the story of the girl.

\BTW, I call shenanigans.
\\The girl's mother is umemployed.
\\\Collecting $ for her daughter is one hell of an income.

What happened to "crotch fruit?" I think I missed a class. We still using that one or are we looking the other way on it in favor of "precious snowflake?"

Obviously what this young lady needs is a savage beating.

BTW... PALMERTON!?

This is a place in which I drive through often on my weekend motorcycle rides. Trust me on this one, there is nearly nothing there. (pop. approx. 6500)

This is a school with approximately 550 students. Not exactly a larger school by any stretch of the imagination. Want to bet that the boarding school she attended has more students?

If it looks like...
smells like...
tastes like...
/you get the rest Mr. Chong

Gwendolyn: Wow she's 'afraid" of school but she can go to a boarding school and go on trips to Toronto and NYC? I'm calling bullshiat.

Yes, but who is she connected with at that school district? Seriously. My sister had a kid who was developmentally delayed, and had to fight like a tiger to get any of his educational needs met. He ended up going to high school, and going to college, but getting his ed plan approved was like pulling teeth. Almost any other disabled kid's parent will tell you the same story. Mom has to have some awesome connections.

"Precious little snowflake" my eye. The mother should be found guilty of child neglect.

If this girl isn't hot, she will be a complete failure in life. But I'm assuming she might be hot because of the modeling thing. Put her on mtv, she'll be entertainingly stupid.

FTFA: Barbara Maykish has opted not to homeschool her, saying she worried that she would not be able to help Rebecca with her math and writing problems.

You're afraid that you won't be able to keep up with the 4th grade curriculum?!?! If anyone deserved to DIAF, it's this farking whore. The kid's got problems, but really, can you blame her?

It's these kind of situations that Child Services was created for.

The child is certainly getting an education.

Her mother's unemployed and successfully working the system. She's learning how to do the same.

/pukes

If she is in modeling classes etc she had better be halfway decent looking, so she really does not need an education. I mean, who needs calculus when you can just lie on your back?

A girl in my freshman class stopped coming to school because it was "too stressful" for her. Seriously, what are these people going to do when they are adults and it's "too stressful" for them to work? Pathetic.

revrendjim: My ex's school had a kid with "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity" or some such crap. The story was that she couldn't go in the school building because fumes from the carpets and plastics would make her sick. The parents lawyered up and the school was forced to pay for a teacher to go to the kids home and tutor her. The parents (unemployed--on disability of course) smoked in the house and it was filled with a noxious cloud of death.

Your tax dollars at work.

In New York, there are parents who have been so relentless with the legal actions that the school district has found it cheaper to simply buy them a house outside the district and let them be somebody else's headache.

It's not the girl's fault.

The girl's mother failed her and the school district failed her. My immediate thought is that the mother kept pestering the school district until they got tired of hearing it and just gave her a bribe.

Anyone with a heart should feel pity for her. She didn't have parents who cared enough to make her do things she didn't want to do. It was easier just to cave in instead of making the hard decisions that would have been best for the child. The child may have had a mental disorder, but nearly any such disorder could have and should have been addressed with therapy, medication or both.

Superjew: FTFA: Barbara Maykish has opted not to homeschool her, saying she worried that she would not be able to help Rebecca with her math and writing problems.

Sure, why should she do anything when she has thousands of dollars of state money to spend?

Hopefully the state's obligation to subsidize this bullshiat ends when Snowflake turns 18.

Superjew: FTFA: Barbara Maykish has opted not to homeschool her, saying she worried that she would not be able to help Rebecca with her math and writing problems.

You're afraid that you won't be able to keep up with the 4th grade curriculum?!?!

Actually, Superjew, I wish more parents had that fear. I see people coming into our library, hell-bent on home schooling their kids, and honestly, they just aren't smart enough. It's not like the first generation of home school advocates, who were highly educated themselves and probably taught better than a lot of teachers.

cybrwzrd: If she is in modeling classes etc she had better be halfway decent looking, so she really does not need an education. I mean, who needs calculus when you can just lie on your back?

I'll bet she is grossly obese.

I should also add: how do you convince a school board to just give you an 'education fund' that large? And then after spending $46,000 on the kid, say that they are not providing her with an education? At what point does the district say no more?

M Sinistrari: Anytime I didn't want to go to school and said I was sick or whatnot, the answer was 'Okay, and you're still going so finish getting ready.'.

My dad's a doctor and my mom was a nurse. So it was either "you'll live, get to the bus stop," or "we're going to the hospital."

'It's been really bad. I have my house for sale (to pay the fines) ... (But) when she did go to school, she would cry nonstop,' Maykish said as she sat in the living room of her Lehigh Avenue home with her two Japanese Chin lap dogs and a Boston terrier nearby.

The documents show Barbara Maykish spent $222 to board her dogs while visiting Rebecca at a California boarding school in 2007; $2,329 for her and Rebecca to fly to the school and $500 for tuition and spending from March-May.

Just another asshat that found a way to loot the system. The fact that she's losing her house at least makes sense.

You notice that the father lives in Peru. I'm sure he is thrilled to be there. I usually don't support forced sterilization for anyone but Rush Limbaugh listeners and DailyKos readers, but seriously, these these genes need to be removed from the pool.

BBRModitha: Am I the only one who hates the term precious little snowflake?

No, you're not. I hate pretty much all of the stupid Internet cliches that are thrown around here. They're tiresome and dull and suck away creativity and original thought.

However, I keep coming back, so what does that say about me?