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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 406801" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>Marg, thanks for the advice on the meeting. You are such a master at this that I always look forward to your advice. </p><p></p><p>I will certainly raise the issue about the lunch as well as about the more than 1/2 day of school not attended. I thought it was pretty awful. He is not eligible for the free lunch program, Susie, but still it is not acceptable. Of course they will probably say that difficult child lied about it too, but he volunteered it to me almost as an aside so I don't think he was making it up. </p><p></p><p>Another thing I found out is that his gym teacher was not there when this incident happens. She comes from another part of the building and the kids wait for her to arrive and unlock the gym. So there was no adult present when this happened. He has already had one incident in gym class and we talked with the school about him needing proximity to the gym teacher as a way of helping him deal with the more unstructured high energy nature of gym class. So apparently the remedy for this will be for him to check in with Special Education teacher before gym to give the teacher a chance to arrive. I think that if my son had suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of the kid pounding him we might have had a pretty good case legally given the kids were unsupervised. </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately for difficult child there are no other options in our district or even in neighboring SDs that make sense for the remainder of 8th grade. This weekend I made the decision to pull him out of the school when it is appropriate. We've mobilized our ed consultants. Yes I could go through the whole legal thing of trying to get them to pay up etc but that would waste a year or more of his life and a lot of $$ on lawyers and would be a hard case to win. These cases usually are. If things get really bad I will pull him out and homeschool him for the remainder of 8th grade which he won't really like and hopefully our ed consultants will have some good recommendations of what to do with him. He's really not a case for an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) but would benefit from some skilled social intervention, small classes and lots of supervision and a really positive environment with great adult mentors. </p><p></p><p>In the meantime I have to figure out how to constructively channel my feelings of just wanting to nuke the whole school. I can do some constructive things but it is so hard when you are just so angry and fed up. </p><p></p><p>The SDs next move will probably be to place him in the 60 day behavior center program which in my understanding deals mostly with CD kids at his grade level. And those are the kids that we have been working hard to keep him away from given his propensity to seek peer approval in whatever ways he can. He is so vulnerable to being manipulated by more clever conduct disordered kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 406801, member: 2322"] Marg, thanks for the advice on the meeting. You are such a master at this that I always look forward to your advice. I will certainly raise the issue about the lunch as well as about the more than 1/2 day of school not attended. I thought it was pretty awful. He is not eligible for the free lunch program, Susie, but still it is not acceptable. Of course they will probably say that difficult child lied about it too, but he volunteered it to me almost as an aside so I don't think he was making it up. Another thing I found out is that his gym teacher was not there when this incident happens. She comes from another part of the building and the kids wait for her to arrive and unlock the gym. So there was no adult present when this happened. He has already had one incident in gym class and we talked with the school about him needing proximity to the gym teacher as a way of helping him deal with the more unstructured high energy nature of gym class. So apparently the remedy for this will be for him to check in with Special Education teacher before gym to give the teacher a chance to arrive. I think that if my son had suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of the kid pounding him we might have had a pretty good case legally given the kids were unsupervised. Unfortunately for difficult child there are no other options in our district or even in neighboring SDs that make sense for the remainder of 8th grade. This weekend I made the decision to pull him out of the school when it is appropriate. We've mobilized our ed consultants. Yes I could go through the whole legal thing of trying to get them to pay up etc but that would waste a year or more of his life and a lot of $$ on lawyers and would be a hard case to win. These cases usually are. If things get really bad I will pull him out and homeschool him for the remainder of 8th grade which he won't really like and hopefully our ed consultants will have some good recommendations of what to do with him. He's really not a case for an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) but would benefit from some skilled social intervention, small classes and lots of supervision and a really positive environment with great adult mentors. In the meantime I have to figure out how to constructively channel my feelings of just wanting to nuke the whole school. I can do some constructive things but it is so hard when you are just so angry and fed up. The SDs next move will probably be to place him in the 60 day behavior center program which in my understanding deals mostly with CD kids at his grade level. And those are the kids that we have been working hard to keep him away from given his propensity to seek peer approval in whatever ways he can. He is so vulnerable to being manipulated by more clever conduct disordered kids. [/QUOTE]
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