When Santa Rosa students returned to their schools from summer break on Aug. 13, seventh grader Brooke Adams did not join her peers. Brooke has a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome. The genetic mutation can cause long-lasting seizures either randomly or brought on by an increase in body temperature, often due to outside heat. To mitigate these seizures, Brooke takes cannabis daily, and when she seizes, as administered by a nurse who spends the school day with her. Assuring that care on school grounds has not been easy. Brooke’s mother, Jana Adams, fought tirelessly in 2018 against Rincon Valley Union’s request to transfer Brooke to homeschooling after district officials denied the family the storage and use of her medicine on school grounds. She won that battle after six weeks, and Brooke returned to school with her medicine. Now, Adams has another fight on her hands: keeping her 12-year-old daughter in the district at a school she was accepted to six months ago, then barred from attending weeks before classes resumed.