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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

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frustration and other things that are important

the psychiatrist says that David’s behavior is because he is bored. I wonder home much of his current behavior might have been prevented if he had been allowed to attend public school. Our school district would indicate that the school they wanted to enroll him in was a public school.  And it is.  I can’t argue that point.  What I can argue is that he would have been the youngest one there, and that the school is really a residential treatment facility with a day program.  I can argue that it isn’t the least restrictive environment because he has to be driven there 58 miles one way each day.  this means that to start school at 8:30, he would need to leave home at 7. This wouldn’t be an issue if we lived in the country, but we don’t.  If he was allowed to attend the school here in our

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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

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