SOL’s at middle school

At the end of every school year these kids have to deal with the pressure of the state mandated testings called the SOL tests. My youngest suffers badly with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and she misses a good amount of school due to major stomach cramps that nothing will help in these times, except sometimes a bowel of Tomato soup and she is getting very tired of eating Tomato soup. I can imagine that when she is an adult she will never eat a bowel of Tomato soup due to the amounts that she has consumed of this one and only treatment we have found to somewhat ease the pain.

Back to the SOL tests, they are scheduled for this Thursday and Friday, the wife and I have already told the school that she will most likely miss at least one of the testing dates. They have assured us that there will be plenty of make up dates offered, they are very aware of how stress makes her stomach go crazy and tests are very stressful for this one. I hope we make it through this with minimal stress for all.