BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – A Michigan middle school is taking heat after officials dismissed a student who missed too many days of school … because of her leukemia cancer treatments.

Rose McGrath received a letter from St. Joseph Middle School in Battle Creek last week kicking the girl out because of attendance and academic performance issues over the last few years, WWMT reports.

“I didn’t do anything wrong, but they still got rid of me,” the seventh-grader told the news station.

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McGrath was diagnosed with leukemia in 2012 and her chemotherapy treatments left the girl sick and bedridden. Officials at the Catholic school contend McGrath attended only 32 days of school last year, and continues to struggle academically despite efforts to help reduce her workload.

“These are extraordinary circumstances, but so many accommodations were made we felt eventually it became a point where we really had to help Rose, by being able to make sure that she was getting the assistance that she needed and to learn,” John Fleckenstein, a father with Battle Creek Area Catholic Schools, told WWMT.

McGrath said St. Joseph was the only place she felt normal.

“When I’m at home, I’m sick, I don’t feel well; no one else does that,” she said. “But when I’m at school I’m like everyone else.”

The Associated Press reports McGrath has since transferred to the public Lakeview Middle School, though Catholic school have invited the girl back in light of recent media reports.

McGrath’s mother, Barbara McGrath, told the news site she’s not so sure she wants to send her daughter back and postponed a meeting this week for “a cooling off period” before making any decision.

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“It sounds like they’re not going to pass her anyway, even if she goes back,” Barbara McGrath told the AP. “I don’t see her being able to go back there and being successful.”

Part of the problem, she said, is the school is only counting the 32 full days her daughter was in class, and isn’t accounting for “numerous” partial days. And while school officials claim to have made “significant adjustments to our standards” to help McGrath, the 12-year-old’s mother disagrees.

Rose McGrath “had to do every single project, every single test,” Barbara McGrath said, adding that she believes her daughter is passing her classes.

Regardless, the McGrath’s have filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights and asked school officials to develop an accommodation plan for students with severe illnesses, according to the AP.

“The accommodations which were made were woefully inadequate for a child with such a serious diagnosis,” McGrath’s father, Tom McGrath, told WWMT.

Barbara McGrath explained that while her daughter’s cancer is in remission, the treatment he endured comes with a long road to recovery.

“Even though she’s now  done with her treatment you still have a very long recovery process because you’ve basically just put two and a half years of poison in your body,” McGrath said. “You’re not recovering overnight.”