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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 458692" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I don't know what the social worker's training is, or what her role is other than to do things at school. Is she also doing therapy with difficult child or just acting as an advocate at the school? If she is NOT an advocate as her primary job, you NEED to go to your state board of ed website and check there for an advocate, or google your state name with educational advocate. Often an advocate will be enough to make the school straighten up and fly right. IF that doesn't help, get an attorney. Also go to the sp ed forum part of the board and post over there about this. </p><p></p><p>in my opinion there will NEVER be a time that a school is going to tell my kid he/she cannot call me. PERIOD. It is one of the big red flags for child abuse. I pulled my daughter out of our middle school because they wouldn't let her call me after several incidents, including sexual assault/molestation by several boys while she was changing classes. She was actually told not to tell me because the school couldn't stop it so it would just upset me. Yup. they told my 6th gr child to not tell me she was sexually assaulted by other kids because it would UPSET ME. Telling a child to not tell a parent sometihing is also a huge warning sign for abuse - no matter how old the child is - UNLESS it is about something they are making as a gift like an art project. We started homeschooling Jess that year for a variety of reasons. Mostly she was close to two years ahead by the end of the first year, so she actually would ahve skipped a year to go back to the appropriate place educationally. </p><p></p><p>You also can check out online schools - now most states offer them for free through the school system. Not sure what all grades are offered in your state, but mine does most years including some elementary years.</p><p></p><p>They can't pick and choose the parts of the IEP. Just not okay. The schedule was good and only the sp ed teacher messed it up. I would be in contact with the superintendent of schools TODAY about the school not contacting you and not following the prior IEP or meeting to set up a new one.</p><p></p><p>The school MUST contact the sheriff if a child leaves the property with-o authorization. You are NEVER going to get them to change that one. And really, if he decided to walk home and took off, then got into a stranger's car or got hit by a car or attacked by a dog, you would WANT the authorities looking for him ASAP to try to prevent that -- esp because kids hwo are abducted are generally killed in the first few hours. Even if he IS a teen and has freedoms to go on long walks from home, the school CANNOT allow him to leave with-o authorization (signed out by an adult that you say is okay) or they are responsible for any trouble or danger that he gets into. And thirteen just isn't old enough to have the street smarts to keep himself safe. So I would NOT be upset about the call to the sheriff for this. I would be glad that they took all measures to find him once he left/they knew he left.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 458692, member: 1233"] I don't know what the social worker's training is, or what her role is other than to do things at school. Is she also doing therapy with difficult child or just acting as an advocate at the school? If she is NOT an advocate as her primary job, you NEED to go to your state board of ed website and check there for an advocate, or google your state name with educational advocate. Often an advocate will be enough to make the school straighten up and fly right. IF that doesn't help, get an attorney. Also go to the sp ed forum part of the board and post over there about this. in my opinion there will NEVER be a time that a school is going to tell my kid he/she cannot call me. PERIOD. It is one of the big red flags for child abuse. I pulled my daughter out of our middle school because they wouldn't let her call me after several incidents, including sexual assault/molestation by several boys while she was changing classes. She was actually told not to tell me because the school couldn't stop it so it would just upset me. Yup. they told my 6th gr child to not tell me she was sexually assaulted by other kids because it would UPSET ME. Telling a child to not tell a parent sometihing is also a huge warning sign for abuse - no matter how old the child is - UNLESS it is about something they are making as a gift like an art project. We started homeschooling Jess that year for a variety of reasons. Mostly she was close to two years ahead by the end of the first year, so she actually would ahve skipped a year to go back to the appropriate place educationally. You also can check out online schools - now most states offer them for free through the school system. Not sure what all grades are offered in your state, but mine does most years including some elementary years. They can't pick and choose the parts of the IEP. Just not okay. The schedule was good and only the sp ed teacher messed it up. I would be in contact with the superintendent of schools TODAY about the school not contacting you and not following the prior IEP or meeting to set up a new one. The school MUST contact the sheriff if a child leaves the property with-o authorization. You are NEVER going to get them to change that one. And really, if he decided to walk home and took off, then got into a stranger's car or got hit by a car or attacked by a dog, you would WANT the authorities looking for him ASAP to try to prevent that -- esp because kids hwo are abducted are generally killed in the first few hours. Even if he IS a teen and has freedoms to go on long walks from home, the school CANNOT allow him to leave with-o authorization (signed out by an adult that you say is okay) or they are responsible for any trouble or danger that he gets into. And thirteen just isn't old enough to have the street smarts to keep himself safe. So I would NOT be upset about the call to the sheriff for this. I would be glad that they took all measures to find him once he left/they knew he left. [/QUOTE]
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