Okanagan teen ‘blindsided’ by removal from high school
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The teen, who lives with mental health challenges, says she is being forced out of her high school and into an alternative program against her wishes.
A North Okanagan family is speaking out about the way the Vernon School District is handling their daughter’s education.
The teen, who lives with mental health challenges, says she is being forced out of her high school and into an alternative program against her wishes.
“As soon as anything changes in my life, it’s like explosions for me. It’s like everything is over. It is horrible,” said Grade 10 student Kayla Rossner.
That difficulty with change is a big part of why the Coldstream teen doesn’t want to leave her high school.
“He is like, ‘I am sorry and…I wish we had the resources to have you at Kal,’ and all this stuff. He starts going on and I’m just bawling to him, like begging him not to do this,” Rossner said.
Her mother, Rose Carnevale-Rossner said she was equally “blindsided” by the news.
“Kayla was looking for answers from me and I honestly had said that I don’t know,” Carnevale-Rossner said.
Rossner says she was told she was no longer a student at Kalamalka Secondary School because she had missed too many classes.