Today a doctor came to Kaitlyn’s school to give the children exams. The form they sent home said the doctor would check eyesight, hearing, speech and I think posture or something like that.
So I filled out the form they sent home the best I could, copied her immunization records from the US and handed it all over to the teacher this morning.
When I picked Kaitlyn up from school this afternoon, the teacher handed me an envelope. It contained the results for the exam.
Eyesight: fine
Speech: parle anglais (so they skipped it)
Hearing: some sort of problem.
I cannot read the doctor’s handwriting (big surprise!) but here’s what I think it says: if you talk to Kaitlyn in a normal or loud voice even in French she understands. But if you whisper, she doesn’t. Well, no shit! If you whisper to me in French I don’t understand. I’m lucky to understand as much as she does if you speak French to me in a normal tone.
The whole thing annoyed me.
Then at dinner, Kaitlyn started crying and told us she can’t speak and that the doctor told her that. I don’t know if he did or if she overheard me telling Bill what it said, but not overhearing the part where I said how stupid the whole thing is. I must have whispered that part … in French.