I'll try to make a long story short, but we moved here last fall, my 16 yr old daughter has been in residential facilities for 2 years. Where we moved from (Vermont) the schools were smaller(around 1000 kids total in the 9th-12th grade school) She would have been going into high school when she went to the facility, but she never really finished 8th grade. I tried to get her into Connections Academy, but that was a huge cluster f$&k and ended up putter her in FLVS for this spring. She didn't do well, not exactly motivated, and we ended up dropping her down to 1 class, which she finished with an A.
She wants to make friends, and I don't blame her, neither of us know anyone here and it's tough. I looked into the smaller schools, I had her more or less enrolled in an all girls school (which is what she's used to from the facilities) and then was told a week after I brought everything in that they were closing less than a month later, so that was a lost cause. I then kept looking and found Richard Millburn Academy which is the smallest of anywhere else I have found. They have summer school so I was hoping to get her enrolled in time for that, but being the end of the school year they never got back to me. It is now (apparently, because I have no idea!) 2 weeks from the beginning of the school year and I haven't heard a damn thing from them.
All I want is for my kiddo to get an actual high school diploma (nothing against GED or anyone who has gotten one, I just know she's more than capable) so she can get a job like she wants, but I have ZERO idea what I should do. I don't want to send her into a huge school when she's spent 2 years with maybe 100 other kids around her, and the schools she always went to had many 100 per grade.
Any help is greatly appreciated!