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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 145449" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Filing a complaint with the state, a due process hearing and a civil lawsuit (taking the SD to court) are three entirely different things.</p><p></p><p>I filed complaints when the school district was out of compliance with IDEA regulations (IDEA-speak for not following the regulations). Even with a school friendly compliance officer, one complaint led to a state-mandated policy change at our SD and the other to one-on-one tutoring for my son in all his academic subjects for a full semester's worth of instruction after he had been illegally excluded from school. They were my two biggest wins.</p><p></p><p>I filed for due process twice -- once when the SD failed to follow the above mentioned tutoring schedule and once when the SD attempted to force a placement that was completely inappropriate/unwarrented. I won both hearings but I don't know if I won in the long run. We moved out of the first district because we feared retaliation (mostly due to a change in the principal from a good guy to a jerk) but after the second we surrendered and my son quit school. We decided the school district would never move past the psychosis caused by the AD; he was a marked kid. And by then they <em>really</em> hated <em>me!</em></p><p></p><p>I never took either SD to court because I simply couldn't have afforded it had a been able to find an attorney to take our case.</p><p></p><p>After paying an attorney to represent my son in the first run in with the school -- an suspension hearing for an incident that never occurred -- and <em>losing</em>, we never paid an attorney to deal with the school again. And my complaints to the state and learning the IDEA regulations reversed everything that happened at the ridiculous suspension hearing. What a kangaroo court.</p><p></p><p>by the way, I liked mediation. We may have a biased compliance officer for this area but we had a good mediator and good hearing officers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 145449, member: 1498"] Filing a complaint with the state, a due process hearing and a civil lawsuit (taking the SD to court) are three entirely different things. I filed complaints when the school district was out of compliance with IDEA regulations (IDEA-speak for not following the regulations). Even with a school friendly compliance officer, one complaint led to a state-mandated policy change at our SD and the other to one-on-one tutoring for my son in all his academic subjects for a full semester's worth of instruction after he had been illegally excluded from school. They were my two biggest wins. I filed for due process twice -- once when the SD failed to follow the above mentioned tutoring schedule and once when the SD attempted to force a placement that was completely inappropriate/unwarrented. I won both hearings but I don't know if I won in the long run. We moved out of the first district because we feared retaliation (mostly due to a change in the principal from a good guy to a jerk) but after the second we surrendered and my son quit school. We decided the school district would never move past the psychosis caused by the AD; he was a marked kid. And by then they [I]really[/I] hated [I]me![/I] I never took either SD to court because I simply couldn't have afforded it had a been able to find an attorney to take our case. After paying an attorney to represent my son in the first run in with the school -- an suspension hearing for an incident that never occurred -- and [I]losing[/I], we never paid an attorney to deal with the school again. And my complaints to the state and learning the IDEA regulations reversed everything that happened at the ridiculous suspension hearing. What a kangaroo court. by the way, I liked mediation. We may have a biased compliance officer for this area but we had a good mediator and good hearing officers. [/QUOTE]
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