After being assured that she would leave her cell phone home, I told B she could come back. Her probation depended on it. She returned, but the cell phone was back. She had forgotten it in her pocket. She managed to leave it out of sight for a few days, but then it was back again--and she said she had to take a call from her probation officer. A little bit of sleuthing determined her PO was out of the office that day.
She asked me if I could drop her off after class. I assumed that meant at home which was not out of my way very far. When we started out, she told me to bring her to her aunt's house which was a few miles in the opposite direction. She was very rude about my objecting to this and never said thank you for the ride.
At that point, maybe because I was so tired of her behavior, I decided the cell phone business was the last straw and that she needed to be suspended. I wrote it up for the PO and faxed it over the weekend. I was able to talk to him before her court hearing. I stressed that it is unfair to demand that someone be in adult education classes when it is not a good placement for them. She could not work independently and had made no progress.
I don't know the end of the story. She may be back incarcerated at the Juvenile Justice Center. There are successes--many of them. I'll write more about one later. But she is not and it makes me sad. However, my life is easier without her.
Follow up a few months later: I have heard from others that B is pregnant. She had been pregnant before and had a miscarriage. It is possible that this will give her a reason to grow up some!
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