The phone merry-go-round!

Wow...what an exhausting day! I called The Correspondence School (TCS) today and asked if Grace would be eligible under the criteria of Geographical Isolation (she has been thrown off Gobus twice this year because she would regularly hit other students being transported). Since the school is 25 km away and we could not keep transporting her ourselves, she should fit the criteria (ie. must live over approx. 4 km away from school). Not that simple! I was put onto someone in "resourcing" at the Ministry of Education, who sent me their policy and referred me on to Regina at Multiserve (Waikato) who is the Ministry's transport agency for our area. Regina told me she only confirms how far the nearest school is from our home...and that that school was Ngaruawahia High! I told her that our local school could not cater for Grace's very high special needs (and I know since both Dawson and I work there!) Regina said that I would need to talk to TCS about that....gee thanks...back to the beginning! So guess what I'm doing tomorrow...ringing TCS to see if Grace is eligible under...blah, blah, blah! At least I've got a bit more info now (probably more than the recruitment officer I'll be talking to).  Sometimes I think they give you another number to ring just to hide the fact that they DON'T KNOW.