Kate had a couple more incidents with some classmates when that same girls continued to complain to the teacher when Katie did silly things. There were a couple days of tension, but Ms Margot helped her work it out.
Then things were quiet for quite a while. I got a new job at a crisis residence in Coon Rapids for adults going through mental health crises.
At the beginning of this month I got an email from Mrs Phillips saying she'd like to speak with me and asking for a good time to call, and also saying that she was seeing some different and escalating behaviors lately, so if I still wanted the SpEd eval they were ready to go ahead with it now.
When I talked with Mrs Phillips she wanted to know if I was aware of Katie's imaginary friend, Rose. Now, Katie has always had a plethora of imaginary friends that come and go, most of whom are associated with her multitude of stuffed animals, but there has never been one significant stand out among them. Seems like I've heard of Rose before (Rose is Katie's middle name), but she's never been anyone special. Apparently she had become so at school, however.
Katie had begun to sign her papers "Katie and Rose", and when Mrs Phillips was assigning them each partners for a classroom assignment, Katie told her she didn't need a partner because she already had Rose.
(Update 2025: For some reason this post was never finalized/published. Thankfully Rose didn't last long. Now Katie talks to Snap Chat followers instead of her imaginary friends. I guess she was ahead of her time!)
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