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Missing in Action ~ all part of learning

The last week has just been crazy in our house.  It all started with David threatening to kill someone on his brother’s facebook account, and it snowballed from there.

So what have we learned here?

We learned that kids can hide pills in their mouth, under the tongue, in the lower cheek area near the jaw. Kids are good at determining when they want to stop taking their pills.  But not so good at making the decision to do so.

We learned that doctors don’t believe parents who say “we make sure that he takes his pills 4 times a day.”

We learned that some medicines are not carried by major pharmacies and can only be filled at a hospital.

We learned that medicines go a long way toward stabilising behaviours of kids with severe ADHD.

We learned that nurses and doctors can be very rude when you interrupt the normal flow of their work day.

We learned that school counsellors have a job to do, and one of those jobs is to advocate for the child.

It has been a rough week, and we seem to be over the worst of it.  This weekend, David starts respite care, which should go a long ways toward helping ease the tensions in our household.

English: A child not paying attention in class.

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>Appeal results

>We received notice of our appeal determination today.  Evidently the only people who can appeal the decision is the person found to have committed the abuse or neglect.  Our appeal was denied because we weren’t the ones who had been accused of the abuse of neglect.  

So evidently, in the state of North Dakota, it is acceptable practice to lock a child with special needs in a room all by himself as a means of restraint or control.  
For some reason, I have a huge problem with that.
1.  the room was on the second floor, and by the school’s own admission, our son was banging on the windows with a chair.  what would have happened if the window had broke out, and he had gone through the window?
2.  in the room there was a desk, in that desk our son found two pairs of scissors, and by the school’s own admission, he threatened to use them. Granted the principal later qualified her statement and said that our son just wanted to cut some paper. But still, he had access to what could have been a dangerous weapon.  
3.  If our son had developed a medical emergency of some kind while locked in that room, would they have been able to get the room unlocked fast enough to save him? 

>decision regarding the abuse and neglect complaint

>Somehow the abuse and neglect complaint was decided without talking any witnesses.  The decision is that no services were required, because no evidence was found to substantiate that claim.  I guess it is ok to lock a child with mental heal issues in a room with furniture and other things such as scissors which he could use to hurt himself or others.

we are going to appeal.  I can’t see how this can be acceptable practice.