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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Burns" data-source="post: 386628"><p>Hello to everyone who was so nice to responed to my questions about the Manifestion Hearing/Determination. Yesterday we went to the meeting with the advocate we had hired. The outcome of the manifestion, I fill was predetermined . For everyone who has attended one of these you know it is not a plesant meeting. We started off by the introductions. Then we got down what we were there for. It was stated my son has ADHD and learning disibilities. They had his Special Education teacher, Math teacher, and the Asst. Principle there. they ask all if my son had any discipline problems during the current IEP. The answer was no from all three. Our advocate spoke and ask about the other discipline problems in the past. The Schol District Special Education teacher spoke up and said a new rule from the Alabama Dept. of Education does not allow them to use anything but the current IEP and can not go back more than a year to look at discipline problems. The last Iep was done in March of 2010. So for the record he has no disipline problems. At his point they stated two questions had to be ask to determine if it was a manifestation of his disibility. Since he has no problems during current IEP the answer to the first question is no. Then they ask if the school had followed the IEP and the answer was yes. We did get to give our side of why we thought ADHD can cause him to not have a "normal" thought process. All school members voted it was not a manifestation and we voted it was. Their votes count ours don't. So the meeting was called to and end, and then the Discipline hearing stated by the Director of pupil services came ih to be the judge. </p><p> </p><p>Here you can only speak of the offense not what led up to it. The offense was he had a knife at school. they caught him with it. So he is guility. Since he did have the knife, we could not defend him. We (me, my wife, my son, and the advocate) were ask to step out of the room while they discussed it. about three minutes later we were ask back in. the judge said my son was guility and he would be placed in the County Alternative School for 45 days. Our Advocate ask if they had considered any other possibilities and he said yes I can exspell him. </p><p> </p><p>We were dismissed and went straight into an IEP to amend it, so it would address the new placement. WE did this and was told we would hear from the Alternative School for instructions, but until we hear from them he will need to go to his regular school and be in ISS. That's where we are now.</p><p> </p><p>If I can answer any questions I will be glad to do so if it will help anyone who must attend these meetings. It is not a fair system by any means., when you have the entire membership of the meeting made up of school employees it will never be fair.</p><p> </p><p>Again thanks to everyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill Burns, post: 386628"] Hello to everyone who was so nice to responed to my questions about the Manifestion Hearing/Determination. Yesterday we went to the meeting with the advocate we had hired. The outcome of the manifestion, I fill was predetermined . For everyone who has attended one of these you know it is not a plesant meeting. We started off by the introductions. Then we got down what we were there for. It was stated my son has ADHD and learning disibilities. They had his Special Education teacher, Math teacher, and the Asst. Principle there. they ask all if my son had any discipline problems during the current IEP. The answer was no from all three. Our advocate spoke and ask about the other discipline problems in the past. The Schol District Special Education teacher spoke up and said a new rule from the Alabama Dept. of Education does not allow them to use anything but the current IEP and can not go back more than a year to look at discipline problems. The last Iep was done in March of 2010. So for the record he has no disipline problems. At his point they stated two questions had to be ask to determine if it was a manifestation of his disibility. Since he has no problems during current IEP the answer to the first question is no. Then they ask if the school had followed the IEP and the answer was yes. We did get to give our side of why we thought ADHD can cause him to not have a "normal" thought process. All school members voted it was not a manifestation and we voted it was. Their votes count ours don't. So the meeting was called to and end, and then the Discipline hearing stated by the Director of pupil services came ih to be the judge. Here you can only speak of the offense not what led up to it. The offense was he had a knife at school. they caught him with it. So he is guility. Since he did have the knife, we could not defend him. We (me, my wife, my son, and the advocate) were ask to step out of the room while they discussed it. about three minutes later we were ask back in. the judge said my son was guility and he would be placed in the County Alternative School for 45 days. Our Advocate ask if they had considered any other possibilities and he said yes I can exspell him. We were dismissed and went straight into an IEP to amend it, so it would address the new placement. WE did this and was told we would hear from the Alternative School for instructions, but until we hear from them he will need to go to his regular school and be in ISS. That's where we are now. If I can answer any questions I will be glad to do so if it will help anyone who must attend these meetings. It is not a fair system by any means., when you have the entire membership of the meeting made up of school employees it will never be fair. Again thanks to everyone. [/QUOTE]
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