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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 343558" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It a bit like difficult child 3's correspondence school - it's a state-based alternative and absolutely brilliant. But they are not allowed to let people know they exist. And in difficult child 3's case, I happened to know about it but the district office were determined that difficult child 3 would not be permitted to go, they kept blocking the applications. For years.</p><p></p><p>What finally got us through, was I made it clear that if difficult child 3 was not permitted to transfer there, I would be an even bigger pain in the rear for them because I was about to make a HUGE noise in the antidiscrimination front.</p><p></p><p>Where possible, schools will try to muddle through and slide by. They won't put themselves out any further than they have to. So you have to make inaction less desirable, by making it clear tat inaction will cause them MORE work.</p><p></p><p>So you nitpick. You complain. In writing, and require a response in writing. You request meetings. You go to the nth degree of your legal entitlement in terms of action required form the school. Keep sending them letters and asking for the writen response. If you get a phone call instead of a written response, make it clear that you want their response to be followed up in writing. I always take notes of these sort of phone calls anyway and there have been many times when, in the absence of their written response which I requested, I have sent them my copy of the notes I made during the call and said, "THis is my record of your response to my previous letter. If you do not agree that I have written it down correctly, you will need to send me a correction in writing by X date. failure to do this will be taken as acceptance of these notes as a true and correct record."</p><p></p><p>There is no excuse (or room) for complacency.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 343558, member: 1991"] It a bit like difficult child 3's correspondence school - it's a state-based alternative and absolutely brilliant. But they are not allowed to let people know they exist. And in difficult child 3's case, I happened to know about it but the district office were determined that difficult child 3 would not be permitted to go, they kept blocking the applications. For years. What finally got us through, was I made it clear that if difficult child 3 was not permitted to transfer there, I would be an even bigger pain in the rear for them because I was about to make a HUGE noise in the antidiscrimination front. Where possible, schools will try to muddle through and slide by. They won't put themselves out any further than they have to. So you have to make inaction less desirable, by making it clear tat inaction will cause them MORE work. So you nitpick. You complain. In writing, and require a response in writing. You request meetings. You go to the nth degree of your legal entitlement in terms of action required form the school. Keep sending them letters and asking for the writen response. If you get a phone call instead of a written response, make it clear that you want their response to be followed up in writing. I always take notes of these sort of phone calls anyway and there have been many times when, in the absence of their written response which I requested, I have sent them my copy of the notes I made during the call and said, "THis is my record of your response to my previous letter. If you do not agree that I have written it down correctly, you will need to send me a correction in writing by X date. failure to do this will be taken as acceptance of these notes as a true and correct record." There is no excuse (or room) for complacency. Marg [/QUOTE]
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