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Service Plans Part II

So earlier today, I asked the superintendent and two other people from outside the district what language and information the Service Plan requires. The Superintendent told me to ask my wife. (my wife is a special education teacher who has never seen a service plan for an IEP that is not academic in nature. Our son’s is for behaviors related to his severe ADHD and Pediatric Bipolar.) The staffer at our state Department of Public Instruction told me to ask the superintendent. The staffer from our state Pathfinder group told me that it is something that the superintendent and staff from the school should help us write, and gave me the number for a different individual within the Department of Public Instruction to ask. So frustrated. My wife says that we don’t need one. The Superintendent says that we do. Friday is the last day of school for this

Service Plans… What?

So since the impasse was reached at our facilitated IEP meeting, we are home schooling him because we don’t think that it is right for the school district to deny him the chance to try his home school before shipping him off to a school in another district that is 58 miles away. They have asked for something called a Service Plan. Trouble is, I have no idea what goes in the service plan. I sent an email requesting more information, but they have not yet responded. If I don’t respond to immediate requests for information, I am the bad guy. They can take all the time in the world. grrr… so frustrating. Tweet #fighting4answrs

something for fun

I am trying to get back into a writing mode. short stories and that kind of thing. here is one I wrote this afternoon. A glorious spring day, blossoms scenting the air with a lovely fragrance, bumble bees sampling each bud. Lawnmower started, one pull of the rope. Gentle push, and the big wheels start to turn. Swathing a wide path through the densely populated lawn that ants refer to as a forest. Deck raised high, this is the first cut of the year, may need to mow the lawn twice this week. The sanguine aroma of fresh cut grass. The memory it brings of childhood days pushing the reel mower to cut lawn for pocket change to go to the picture show or get an ice cream soda at the five and dime. Hated sharpening the blades on that darn mower. Would do it again. Digging