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<blockquote data-quote="Tiapet" data-source="post: 585977" data-attributes="member: 455"><p>So I officially have an advocate now. A very good thing! I now have to pull together where I want to go with this meeting but it seems like she is going to help me. I learned in this state they do NOT have to have all the teachers there at the meeting at all. A couple of them only. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> She also let me know that they will not volunteer to do any testing, especially not Occupational Therapist (OT), so I will have to request it which I was going to do anyway. We're going to decide exactly what testing we are going to ask for as I said, his last testing (which I don't even think was thorough) was back in 2007. He's long overdue. What I REALLY need is some testing for spectrum and get a more firm/formal diagnosis on that. I don't know how or if I'm going to be able to do this.</p><p></p><p>The latest deal that's gone with him at school was that he was talking in his band class and the district has a discipline policy whereby all the kids names are listed in a database that the teachers access. When they do something wrong they put a check mark by their name and it assigns the level of discipline. Based on how many checkmarks they have, that's the level of consequence they will end up with. In this case, the other kid involved it was his first time so he got a warning. difficult child got had 2 other infractions (doesn't matter what they are) so this made it his third so he got "wind isolation/in classroom isolation". What that means is that each class he gets placed away from all other classmates. A wing is the actual grade he's in. This was simply for talking and the problem with this is A) he has severe ADHD so even medicated it's very hard for him to control this, harder still when the other child (no matter who it is) says or does something that my difficult child finds funny. In this case said child made "sex noises" (what ever that means?) so my difficult child replied with "that's what she said" comment and laughed/giggled. He is very immature in that respect over inappropriate things. Even his worker said that highschoolers act immaturely when it comes to the conversation of sex. They don't know how to handle the subject maturely at most times.</p><p></p><p>I also got the chance to talk with his psychiatrist about getting that letter to get him on homebound for the last 30 days. Still a no go but at least I now know she was not fully understanding why I wanted the letter. The MH worker had previously spoken to her about it but her thought was that the school was going to seek an alternative placement for him not that it was a potential trauncy issue due to them NOT following the IEP and doing what they should have been nor that there were teacher issues happening that were triggering his issues. So, she said she'd speak more with the MH worker but in the end she said if it came down to a trauncy hearing with a judge (meaning if he ends up refusing school and uses up all his days and I have to go to court because of it) she would make sure that it wasn't about trauncy but that they understood it was about the school not doing what they should of in regards to his IEP! Great! That's NOT going to work as no judge is going to take her word over their own and further more, the things necessary aren't in the IEP and THAT is the problem even more that we had been fighting all year for to get taken care of! I told MH worker I was not comfortable with her thoughts at all. I can only hope that I can somehow maintain him by the skin of my teeth until the end of the school year and/or that when we sit down at this new meeting we get a new IEP in place to help cover it time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tiapet, post: 585977, member: 455"] So I officially have an advocate now. A very good thing! I now have to pull together where I want to go with this meeting but it seems like she is going to help me. I learned in this state they do NOT have to have all the teachers there at the meeting at all. A couple of them only. :( She also let me know that they will not volunteer to do any testing, especially not Occupational Therapist (OT), so I will have to request it which I was going to do anyway. We're going to decide exactly what testing we are going to ask for as I said, his last testing (which I don't even think was thorough) was back in 2007. He's long overdue. What I REALLY need is some testing for spectrum and get a more firm/formal diagnosis on that. I don't know how or if I'm going to be able to do this. The latest deal that's gone with him at school was that he was talking in his band class and the district has a discipline policy whereby all the kids names are listed in a database that the teachers access. When they do something wrong they put a check mark by their name and it assigns the level of discipline. Based on how many checkmarks they have, that's the level of consequence they will end up with. In this case, the other kid involved it was his first time so he got a warning. difficult child got had 2 other infractions (doesn't matter what they are) so this made it his third so he got "wind isolation/in classroom isolation". What that means is that each class he gets placed away from all other classmates. A wing is the actual grade he's in. This was simply for talking and the problem with this is A) he has severe ADHD so even medicated it's very hard for him to control this, harder still when the other child (no matter who it is) says or does something that my difficult child finds funny. In this case said child made "sex noises" (what ever that means?) so my difficult child replied with "that's what she said" comment and laughed/giggled. He is very immature in that respect over inappropriate things. Even his worker said that highschoolers act immaturely when it comes to the conversation of sex. They don't know how to handle the subject maturely at most times. I also got the chance to talk with his psychiatrist about getting that letter to get him on homebound for the last 30 days. Still a no go but at least I now know she was not fully understanding why I wanted the letter. The MH worker had previously spoken to her about it but her thought was that the school was going to seek an alternative placement for him not that it was a potential trauncy issue due to them NOT following the IEP and doing what they should have been nor that there were teacher issues happening that were triggering his issues. So, she said she'd speak more with the MH worker but in the end she said if it came down to a trauncy hearing with a judge (meaning if he ends up refusing school and uses up all his days and I have to go to court because of it) she would make sure that it wasn't about trauncy but that they understood it was about the school not doing what they should of in regards to his IEP! Great! That's NOT going to work as no judge is going to take her word over their own and further more, the things necessary aren't in the IEP and THAT is the problem even more that we had been fighting all year for to get taken care of! I told MH worker I was not comfortable with her thoughts at all. I can only hope that I can somehow maintain him by the skin of my teeth until the end of the school year and/or that when we sit down at this new meeting we get a new IEP in place to help cover it time. [/QUOTE]
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