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This is Our Daughter - This is Your Student

This is our daughter.
This is your client.
This is our life. This is your work.
This is the creation of our love.

This is our only Anne. This is one of
your many students. While our
daughter is here, this is her home.
This is your workplace.

You take care of our daughter.
We love our daughter.
You administer to her education here.

We conceived her, nursed her in our
hopes and dreams long before she came
here. If you could solve her problems,
you would. If we could will order into
the chaos of her brain, exchange our
lives for hers, release her from her
suffering, we would.

We need you.
We respect you.
We appreciate you.

What we need is to have our power
and all your power working together to
give her the very best we can give her.

You have a great responsibility for her
education and care... a heavy burden.
But we have total responsibility for
Anne. We do not hang up that
responsibility like a jacket when we

bring her to you. Nor do we hand it
over when we leave. We wear it
forever. We'd like it if you were
Superman, but we don't expect it. We
know what it's like to be over worked,
understaffed, working with people,
trying your best and still losing some
battles. What we need from you is your
knowledge and compassion. We need to
know everything we can. We need to
ask questions and get considerate
answers, not just be put off.
Condescension rings hollow when we're
talking about the life of our daughter.
We are not afraid to make fools of
ourselves by asking questions.

We need to know what you know--
completely! We are not stupid. If we
could research for years and fix our
daughter we would do it. But right
now, you know some valuable
information - we need to share you
knowledge, as one human being to
another.

Never forget, we are experts, too.
We are parents, experts in love.
Please help us to do for our
daughter what you would do for
yours.

Thank you!

Anne's parents

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