On Jan. 20, a Portland mom named Catie opened an email from Portland Public Schools. She had to refresh it five times to believe it. Only then did she feel a year’s worth of worry evaporate.
Her child had been accepted into Metropolitan Learning Center for high school.
Catie and her husband had been stressed about their eighth grader’s high school options all year. They hit a breaking point with PPS just two years ago and pulled their child out of their neighborhood school when bullying intensified and Catie’s child, then 12 years old, attempted suicide. (WW is withholding the family’s last name to protect their privacy.)…