The social services ladies came today.  They were pretty professional, in that they asked the questions the law requires them to ask and nothing else.   They said the job of inspecting the three families in this division has been knocked around with nobody really knowing who should do it, until finally it landed on their desk.  They don’t know if they will ever be expected to do it again, or if they are the right people.

In retrospect, the only thing that is raising my hackles was them asking me if we ever thought of taking Antonia to a child psychologist.  The reason I’m upset is not because they asked it, specifically.  It’s to be expected, as it’s a standard solution here.  Believe it or not, lots of kids just don’t seem to be too happy in school!  I just feel I did a really bad job of explaining why I don’t agree with defining a child as in need of medical help because of it.  School is not so right and wonderful that only a psychologically abnormal child wouldn’t deal with it.  Not by a long way.  I’m still explaining it badly.  Oh well…

As far as I know, we will never hear anything back from this meeting.  It is just an information collecting exercise.