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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Burns" data-source="post: 386843"><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>Special circumstances</em></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em>Whether or not the behavior was a manifestation of the childs disability, school personnel may remove a student to an interim alternative educational setting (determined by the childs IEP Team) for up to 45 school days, if the child: </em></span></span></span></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em>Carries a weapon (see the definition below) to school or has a weapon at school, on school premises, or at a school function under the jurisdiction of the State Educational Agency or a school district; </em></span></span></span></li> </ol><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I had read this before the manifestation meeting, so we were expecting this to be the case. But we were holding out for less than 45 days. After thinking it may not be that bad for my son to to go to the alternative school. The schools he attends now is only 9th grade, it has over 700 students attending. With him at the alternative school it will kep him from the two boys that were wanting to fight him.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I did come out of this with more wisdom than I had going in. 1.If you hire an advocate make sure they have attended the type of meeting you need to attend. 2. Don't say anything during the manifestationmeeting, save it for the IEP. They will use what you say against you. Here is what the school system's Special Educatin Director did to me, and this come directly from the minutes of the meeting. ( The father ask if his son could step out of the room for a minute, the child steps out- dad speaks frankly about son being adopted and his low IQ, and history of the birth parents. He states he talks to son daily about good behavior. Ms.xxxx states that because of the good parenting, the son has shown he can make better decisions.We have to clearly send son a message about knives). This was one of the most upsetting parts of the meeting, now I wish I had never told them.3. If your child has a disibility and they have any behavioral problems make sure it is documented and addressed. A phone call saying we don't want to see your child get in trouble, just means they don't want to do the paper work, it will come back to bite you later on.4. You don't have any friends in the school system, remember when they go into a room where the Director of <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Personnel </span>is in charge they will side with him. 5. Be vocal at the IEP's this is where your child will start to be protected later, and with the change in the procedure to only use the current IEP make sure what you think needs to be in the IEP is in the IEP.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Again thanks to all who I feel showed concern for my son and our family. This site is a great source of information from people who is going through the same problems you are going through.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Bill</span></span> </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill Burns, post: 386843"] [B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][I]Special circumstances[/I][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][I]Whether or not the behavior was a manifestation of the childs disability, school personnel may remove a student to an interim alternative educational setting (determined by the childs IEP Team) for up to 45 school days, if the child: [/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [LIST=1] [*][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][I]Carries a weapon (see the definition below) to school or has a weapon at school, on school premises, or at a school function under the jurisdiction of the State Educational Agency or a school district; [/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [/LIST][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]I had read this before the manifestation meeting, so we were expecting this to be the case. But we were holding out for less than 45 days. After thinking it may not be that bad for my son to to go to the alternative school. The schools he attends now is only 9th grade, it has over 700 students attending. With him at the alternative school it will kep him from the two boys that were wanting to fight him.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]I did come out of this with more wisdom than I had going in. 1.If you hire an advocate make sure they have attended the type of meeting you need to attend. 2. Don't say anything during the manifestationmeeting, save it for the IEP. They will use what you say against you. Here is what the school system's Special Educatin Director did to me, and this come directly from the minutes of the meeting. ( The father ask if his son could step out of the room for a minute, the child steps out- dad speaks frankly about son being adopted and his low IQ, and history of the birth parents. He states he talks to son daily about good behavior. Ms.xxxx states that because of the good parenting, the son has shown he can make better decisions.We have to clearly send son a message about knives). This was one of the most upsetting parts of the meeting, now I wish I had never told them.3. If your child has a disibility and they have any behavioral problems make sure it is documented and addressed. A phone call saying we don't want to see your child get in trouble, just means they don't want to do the paper work, it will come back to bite you later on.4. You don't have any friends in the school system, remember when they go into a room where the Director of [FONT=Arial]Personnel [/FONT]is in charge they will side with him. 5. Be vocal at the IEP's this is where your child will start to be protected later, and with the change in the procedure to only use the current IEP make sure what you think needs to be in the IEP is in the IEP.[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Again thanks to all who I feel showed concern for my son and our family. This site is a great source of information from people who is going through the same problems you are going through.[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Bill[/SIZE][/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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