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6 year old son keeps getting kicked out of school
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 698837" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Have you sent them a certified letter asking for an IEP? This is a crucial thing, and must be sent via certified letter preferably with return receipt requested so someone must sign for the letter. This puts a timeline in place that the school MUST have him evaluated within and then they must give him whatever services are required. These are all federal laws and are NOT optional for the school even if they make excuses for missing deadlines. They run the risk of forfeiting federal subsidies and all federal programs if they violate the timelines. Knowing the IEP laws is your best way to get the help he needs. It also means they CANNOT suspend him, not even ISS, for behaviors he cannot help. Just asking for an IEP evaluation in person does NOT mean they have to do it. You MUST ask for it in writing and have proof of the date delivered to make the federal timelines enforceable. </p><p></p><p>I found that buying the Wrightlaw book on IEPs was a very smart investment. Not only did I have info on my child's rights, taking the book to the IEP meetings and to meetings about the school breaking the IEP seemed to really make them believe that I understood his rights AND would fight to enforce them. It is a confusing system, and the schools are often really good at double talk to confuse you. I did my own things to confuse them after I caught on to this. one was to make sure there were color coded postit notes in the books I took to meetings. I had the wrightslaw book, a book on autism, and a couple of other books we found helpful. Usually most of the postits were meaningless, but one or two in a specific color were things I would reference. As it was always me in a room with four to ten people from the school who openly tried to intimidate me, I felt NO remorse for doing some things like that. They were effective because after the first 2 times they tried to intimidate and rush me through the process, wanting me to just sign off on whatever they wanted and get out of the room, they stopped playing games. Catching some enormous whoppers and the Special Education teacher falsifying his IEP helped, of course. But refusing to rubberstamp their generic IEP was what my son needed, and may be what yours needs too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 698837, member: 1233"] Have you sent them a certified letter asking for an IEP? This is a crucial thing, and must be sent via certified letter preferably with return receipt requested so someone must sign for the letter. This puts a timeline in place that the school MUST have him evaluated within and then they must give him whatever services are required. These are all federal laws and are NOT optional for the school even if they make excuses for missing deadlines. They run the risk of forfeiting federal subsidies and all federal programs if they violate the timelines. Knowing the IEP laws is your best way to get the help he needs. It also means they CANNOT suspend him, not even ISS, for behaviors he cannot help. Just asking for an IEP evaluation in person does NOT mean they have to do it. You MUST ask for it in writing and have proof of the date delivered to make the federal timelines enforceable. I found that buying the Wrightlaw book on IEPs was a very smart investment. Not only did I have info on my child's rights, taking the book to the IEP meetings and to meetings about the school breaking the IEP seemed to really make them believe that I understood his rights AND would fight to enforce them. It is a confusing system, and the schools are often really good at double talk to confuse you. I did my own things to confuse them after I caught on to this. one was to make sure there were color coded postit notes in the books I took to meetings. I had the wrightslaw book, a book on autism, and a couple of other books we found helpful. Usually most of the postits were meaningless, but one or two in a specific color were things I would reference. As it was always me in a room with four to ten people from the school who openly tried to intimidate me, I felt NO remorse for doing some things like that. They were effective because after the first 2 times they tried to intimidate and rush me through the process, wanting me to just sign off on whatever they wanted and get out of the room, they stopped playing games. Catching some enormous whoppers and the Special Education teacher falsifying his IEP helped, of course. But refusing to rubberstamp their generic IEP was what my son needed, and may be what yours needs too. [/QUOTE]
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