should i give up on trying to get a 504 plan?

i’m a senior in high school currently. i’ve been emailing with my school counselor for a few weeks about trying to get a 504 plan implemented. my reasons are pretty simple: school is absolutely crushing my mental health, and i would like things to slow down a bit. this year i got my first C, and i nearly got a D in a very average leveled history class. i was able to bring that D up to a high B by staying up for two nights straight finishing all of my missing work. this is normally how things go for me. i get maybe 12 hours of collective sleep over a 5 day school week. it’s awful and i feel sick constantly. it really affects my productivity.

i want to get a 504 for my anxiety. i’ve known about it for a while, but i only got formally diagnosed last year because i just started seeing a therapist. my therapist wrote the school a letter stating how my anxiety and depression drastically affect my ability to perform in school. like for example, my anxiety leads to insomnia and an inability to focus during tests and my depression leads to pretty frequent truancy in the morning. i don’t have a formal diagnosis for my insomnia because my doctor blamed my inability to sleep on my phone... so thats fun.

i had my formal meeting with the school psychologist and the principal on december 4 and it was a major waste of time. all of my concerns were ignored because most of my grades looked good. i kept trying to say that my numbers were not all that reflect my struggle, but i kept getting shunned that “i clearly wasnt struggling that badly”. i’m extremely depressed and cry everyday because of school, but they didn’t seem to care because i look like a high functioning depressed person on paper.

is there anything i can do or say to fight this? i absolutely feel like i really need a 504, and my mom agrees. i’ve been able to keep my grades up mostly this last 3 years of highschool, but i’m drowning. i’m so depressed and anxious. my mental health is just getting worse. i can’t do it anymore. im so tired of putting every hour of the day into my school work. i’m so overwhelmed and i genuinely hate school :(

Submitted December 06, 2020 at 03:41AM by pinksugarfruit https://ift.tt/3mOx9ho