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Hello, this is Ashly Chaustre Zambrano father, Oscar Chaustre. First of all I would like to apologize for not saying this earlier. My daughter has been suffering from depression and anxiety from couple of years now, it got worse the time we moved here to the US. Due to bullying and harassment from other classmates when she was just trying to adapt herself in this new whole world right before covid, the first months of 2020 (we tried to address it, the school just called out the kids who were doing this behavior) all of this caused extreme insecurities with herself. She has seen 2 therapists and psychiatrist before online, due to covid at the time. She starts online school because of it; she prefers it thanks to the environment before. When we had the option to send our kids to school or stay online, she stayed online, she had to go back to school since it just lasted some months, which she did. In those months she experienced something similar, this time they addressed better, but still, my daughter didn’t like being at school although before all of this she was an amazing student, all of this changed thanks to the language barrier and the school environment she was facing. She finished that year, this time we got her out of school, and she starts being homeschooled. That’s how it’s been like since the last days of November of 2022. In January of the same year, she tried to go back to school and it just didn’t went well, she went back to being homeschooled. She’s been seeing this Psychiatrist for almost a year now, Ms. Dowell (in Crossroads Health and Wellness Clinic) She has helped her a lot, she encourages her to go back to school, helped us with all the process since being homeschool was isolating her. My daughter was in medication for almost a year too, she stopped taking them since she was feeling a lot better. With her coming back to school, especially now high school she has been struggling again, she doesn’t want to go or feels she’s way better at home, she was very enthusiastic at first but now she’s been really upset and stressed. She’s been trying to do some homework online, but for most of it you must attend class to understand it and work better on it. She likes studying but she can’t get used to the school environment. It’s a struggle, and since she’s new she doesn’t really know anyone, she feels alone, she also got in almost finishing a whole semester, trying to get her grades stable been hard and it’s going to be hard, and with the absences its worse. She’s been really stressed about that; she really cares about her education but with all of these it’s been a battle. She recently went to the doctor because of a burn in her face caused by an acne product, she also has an appointment this Monday 2132023 with her psychiatrist. I would appreciate a lot if you read this although it’s a lot, but I wanted to address this from where it came from and see if you can understand our situation, thanks.