I&#39;m back from getting Ash off to school but as I said previously she will be starting a new school on Monday and is very anxious about it.    Conditions where she was going have become unbearable and Deb &amp; Michael have decided to pull her from there and send her to public school.<br /><br />Her teacher is &quot;detention&quot; happy and seems completely unprepared to deal with 5 and 6 year olds. (She was previously a 5th and 8th grade teacher)  She is in her own words &quot;demanding perfection&quot; from them to a point where Ashleigh &amp; several of her classmates have become quiet and withdrawn - afraid to speak up for fear of being yelled at.   Ash has been having nightmares and not wanting to go to school. Her normal 20 minutes of homework is taking over 2 hours with her being so careful of her penmanship and constatly erasing any letter that is not perfect.   (You lose 1/2 point for the dot not being centered over the letter i - the t not being crossed straight, etc.)  Several of the parents got together and went to speak to the teacher and the princlpal and thought they had gotten somewhere with the teacher.<br /><br />Monday morning comes and Ash raises her hand and asks to use the bathroom.   It is not time for a bathroom break so the teacher yells at her and tells her no.   Naturally, eventually Ash can hold it no longer and has an accident.   When the teacher sees it she hands Ash a roll of paper towels and tells her to clean up the mess and tells the entire class what has happened.  Ash sits in the back of the class so not a lot of kids realized what had happened.  She does not call the house and notify the parents but made Ash sit in her wet uniform all day long.   Naturally Ash wants no more part of that class or that teacher and Deb insists that she be moved to the other first grade.   The principal refused and that&#39;s the end of the story.    Ash is still going to school but knows she will only have to do it for a couple of more days.    <br /><br />I personally wanted Deb &amp; Mike to take it over the Principals head and go to the Archdiocese and report this c**p but right now they are more interested in getting her settled into the new school.   It will be hard at first - most of these kids have been together since Kindergarten, but Ash is a friendly, normally outgoing little girl and I think she will be OK.  I sure hope so.  <br /><br />So that is what has been going on for the last two weeks - I hope the end is in sight.   You cannot imagine the change in Ash since school started and I hope it won&#39;t take long to get our happy little girl back.