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<blockquote data-quote="recovering doormat" data-source="post: 276140" data-attributes="member: 5941"><p>My <em>son is still in school. I met with the principal and IEP councilor and told them about the options I am thinking. They basically said that their recommendation is to continue in the IEP program as long as we wants. If we prefer they may place out of district placements into therapeutic schools which are affliated to the school district with no additional cost to us. But problem I see is that it is a day school and we still have to make sure my son catches the bus. Also same circle of friends will around and same environment. If we decide to go for boarding school ourselves they mentioned that is our familie's chocie and the school districyt has nothing to do with that. Under this circumstances, would it still be possible to get any kind of assistance from the school district? Should I engage a lawer to pursue further? </em></p><p> </p><p>My family is in the same situation with our son. The school district is bound by law to provide an appropriate education for our children but you basically have to accept what they offer if you want them to pay for it. In the case of my older child, a daughter, she was in such emotional distress during her junior year of high school that we could not wait for the school bureaucracy to find her an appropriate school, and elected to put her in a therapeutic day school nearby. We then hired an attorney specializing in educational law for $6,000.00 (flat fee as opposed to an hourly rate) to pursue getting some money from the district. We ended up getting about 50% of what we paid out of pocket. We would have gotten more had we consulted with the attorney before pulling her out of her public high school (there is a complicated strategy of getting the public schools to pay for therapeutic education and it's nearly impossbile to do without an attorney who knows the game), but as they say, hindsight is 20/20.</p><p> </p><p>The school district is under pressure to place your child at the least cost to themselves, so they will look for day schools first and in the case of our state (Connecticut), the high school must be recognized by the state as a special education high school. That narrows the list somewhat. The four schools our out of district coordinator put to us for consideration were not what we were looking for: they would have put our son in with many of the troubled kids he used to smoke pot and skip school with. </p><p> </p><p>If you are interested in getting financial support from the district, I would ask around for the name of a good educational attorney and ask for a consultation. They are usually free. Our district is notoriously difficult to work with so we absolutely needed the help of an attorney. It is in the district's interest in letting the clock run out onyour child, so that by the time they get you the help you need, your child is too old and ineligible, or they have deteriorated so badly, you have moved on to some other solution. Make sure you put every request in writing and save your emails (I used to cc: myself so I could prove that I sent out the email on a particular date) to anyone in the district. </p><p> </p><p>Good luck. I will private message you to ask about the facilities you mentioned in your earlier post, that got deleted. I think I know the ones you are asking about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recovering doormat, post: 276140, member: 5941"] My [I]son is still in school. I met with the principal and IEP councilor and told them about the options I am thinking. They basically said that their recommendation is to continue in the IEP program as long as we wants. If we prefer they may place out of district placements into therapeutic schools which are affliated to the school district with no additional cost to us. But problem I see is that it is a day school and we still have to make sure my son catches the bus. Also same circle of friends will around and same environment. If we decide to go for boarding school ourselves they mentioned that is our familie's chocie and the school districyt has nothing to do with that. Under this circumstances, would it still be possible to get any kind of assistance from the school district? Should I engage a lawer to pursue further? [/I] My family is in the same situation with our son. The school district is bound by law to provide an appropriate education for our children but you basically have to accept what they offer if you want them to pay for it. In the case of my older child, a daughter, she was in such emotional distress during her junior year of high school that we could not wait for the school bureaucracy to find her an appropriate school, and elected to put her in a therapeutic day school nearby. We then hired an attorney specializing in educational law for $6,000.00 (flat fee as opposed to an hourly rate) to pursue getting some money from the district. We ended up getting about 50% of what we paid out of pocket. We would have gotten more had we consulted with the attorney before pulling her out of her public high school (there is a complicated strategy of getting the public schools to pay for therapeutic education and it's nearly impossbile to do without an attorney who knows the game), but as they say, hindsight is 20/20. The school district is under pressure to place your child at the least cost to themselves, so they will look for day schools first and in the case of our state (Connecticut), the high school must be recognized by the state as a special education high school. That narrows the list somewhat. The four schools our out of district coordinator put to us for consideration were not what we were looking for: they would have put our son in with many of the troubled kids he used to smoke pot and skip school with. If you are interested in getting financial support from the district, I would ask around for the name of a good educational attorney and ask for a consultation. They are usually free. Our district is notoriously difficult to work with so we absolutely needed the help of an attorney. It is in the district's interest in letting the clock run out onyour child, so that by the time they get you the help you need, your child is too old and ineligible, or they have deteriorated so badly, you have moved on to some other solution. Make sure you put every request in writing and save your emails (I used to cc: myself so I could prove that I sent out the email on a particular date) to anyone in the district. Good luck. I will private message you to ask about the facilities you mentioned in your earlier post, that got deleted. I think I know the ones you are asking about. [/QUOTE]
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