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Lies and other fun stuff – life with a klepto part 2

We were up late due to the excitement of fireworks, a fire pit and s’mores.

To bed at 3am and up at 6am.  what a joy.

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David had my cell phone this morning, so friends, if you received either a text message or an email from my phone this morning, it wasn’t me.

So I am looking for someone to put an electrical outlet into a cabinet so I can plug my phone in at night and lock it up at the same time.  Any takers?

I took the phone back. Battery is dead.

A short while later, the door to upstairs magically opened.  (It is locked to keep David out of his siblings things.)

So the search began for my keys.  I found them.  A quick check shows that the key to the door is missing, as well as the keys to the locks. “I don’t know how the key fell off your ring…” David says.

Oh and my cell phone with the dead battery and its charger are missing.  Of course, he doesn’t know where they are either.  So he gets to be in seclusion until he gives them back.

This is post 3 for the Ultimate Blog Challenge. 🙂  Have a great day!

Oh, and school… 🙂 this is a disability and one of the reasons that he needs a paraprofessional/aide.

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a midsummer nights update

Things are kind of rocking along here in whynotfathers land.

Our youngest son is still being home schooled.  We still don’t know what is supposed to be in the Service Plan that we are supposed to file with the school district.  Our state Department of Public Instruction gave me our state century code as guidelines, and then referred me to our school superintendent for more advice.  The superintendent told me to ask my wife.  My wife, who teaches in special education in another district, says he doesn’t need one, and even if he did, doesn’t know what is supposed to be in it.

Our local newspaper did a feature story about David and I, about our little home school.  It was kind of neat.  Wish we could have talked about the issues with our local district a little more, but getting the word out about kids having special needs was more important.

On the other hand, we may have a new match for Respite Care for him and our family, which will be a huge bonus for our entire family.

And last but not least, we heard about our request for mediation.  Which we put in a week ago in response to the school’s request for mediation from early May.

Since it is summer time here on the Northern Great Plains, I doubt that anything will happen much before August.  I did give the mediators a complete list of the people on David’s team who needed to be invited to the mediation meeting.  Wish us luck. 🙂

Also don’t forget to check out the post about Jackson’s Journey and our quest to get him a weighted blanket.

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Mediation Request redux submitted

Well, I broke down and submitted the mediation request.  The school as you may remember requested mediation in our quest for an IEP for David that would allow him to return to public school in his home district.  I had written a rebuttal to their request.

Today I listed the 20 or so people on David’s team who need to be present at the meeting.  With the change in key personnel at our Support Services group that the school utilizes, things should be interesting.  Don’t know if they will continue to allow the elementary school principal to run rough shod over parents or not, but we will see.  At any rate, we submitted the request.

If for some reason Mediation goes the way the Facilitated meeting did, we will be in Due Process by Christmas.  I don’t see the benefit in Mediation, but am willing to try. We want them to start David with one hour a day, and see how he does. Once he proves himself, we will gradually increase the length of his day.

I am not blind enough to think that everything is going to be rosy, but wouldn’t put it past the school to somehow sabotage him on his return to school.  What will we do if we suspect that is happening?

I don’t honestly know.  But he deserves the chance to succeed or fail on his own.

At the facilitated IEP if they had given us written word that he could return to his home district if he successfully completed the program at the Ranch, we would have let him go there.  However our superintendent and the principal weren’t ready to commit to that.  I have to have it in writing, as I can’t trust them to keep their word.

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