Matthew had been already enrolled and ready to start kindergarten in September 2009 well before his diagnoses in mid August, so it made things a little bit tricky. Due to some complications in 2010 and long hospitalization and the influence of chemo dragging him down, his studies went on a bit of the back burner...He tried going to the school at the hospital, but we hit many road blocks and it became apparent he would have to repeat kindergarten, but it was our decision as parents and the school would do what we wanted. We decided to keep him back and it was the best decision ever to help Mattie.
By September 2010 the teacher was onboard and Mattie was excited to go back to school with his sister Kyra who was in 6th grade. Kids at school had questions about Matt, because he looked very sick, had lost his hair, and they were not educated about cancer. The academic year went along well, and Mattie graduated kindergarten in June with a fresh head of hair.
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