<p>Two of my kids are through and one is half way through. We have to pick our battles for advocacy due to serious health issues in two of my kids. Rather than being idealistic, we are pragmatic about what to push bureaucracies on. For those issues that we do have to let go, we try to be positive and remember, as I said, the original reason for education. It helps.</p>
<p>The suggestions were not meant to be in place of e-mailing, but a possible positive route if the effort was not successful.</p>