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Originally Posted By Rinda

Going back to non-special ed school related issues, what about teachers and administration?

It took me like four months of complaining and talking to the principal of the school to get them to change my daughters name and pull out all old records from her school file after the adoption. It really upset her a few years ago when the made her use the name of her biological parents (the ones we have told her she would never have to see again) (the same ones that severely abused her for four years and on what were supposed to be supervised visits with a social worker). So just this week I go to her schools' open house and posted in the classroom is the library check out list and it has all of her old name and part of her real name listed. I was a little P.O.'d at this. I made them take it down and throw is away. Yes, the clerk in the library did not know it was that big of deal, but it is to me and my daughter. They just don't seem to understand.

I do get sick of answering adoption questions. Anymore I have even been known to say yes I was 19 when my daughter was born, no I'm not married, I'm an unwed mother. We are as much of a family as anyone and my girls are my real kids.