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Principal calls. difficult child sleeping. Wants me to come get him, he's "wasting their time".
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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 265081" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Shari, what I keep reading over and over again is that the school is making educating your difficult child <strong>your </strong>problem. <strong>You're</strong> missing work and shadowing him, <strong>you're</strong> being called when he's sleeping, <strong>you're </strong>expected to take care of him half days so the school only deals with him for half a day.</p><p> </p><p>Legally this is all wrong. It is the <em><strong>school's</strong></em> responsibility to educate your son. If they don't know how to handle him, then they need to be calling in and paying for educational consultants who do. If the aides aren't trained to handle him, then the school needs to provide the training, even if it means sending them out or bringing someone in. If they can't provide an appropriate educational setting for him for the full day, then they need to create one within the district or pay to have him transported to another site (private or in another district) that has a program in place. If an IEP is in place that specifies that if difficult child does X, then Y is to happen, then that's what they should do without bothering you at work. If he needs a para and it's agreed upon by the team in the IEP, then they should be providing it for the X number of minutes per day it's specified.</p><p> </p><p>All of this is not optional--it's the <strong>LAW</strong>. Paying an advocate or educational attorney to get them to do their job would probably be cheaper and less frustrating in the long run than continually missing work and risking your job. The more you do, the more the school will rely on you. The more your son succeeds in this setting with you in tow, pushing/prodding and/or or picking up the slack, the less leverage you will have to show that the school is not doing their job because he will be more apt to meet his goals and make the grades. </p><p> </p><p>I know parents who forced our district to create a class for their child with multiple disabilities because nothing existed in the district or in the area. He was the only student in the class that first year, and other districts sent kids in. It took a lawyer to make it happen but it saved them a boatload in the longrun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 265081, member: 701"] Shari, what I keep reading over and over again is that the school is making educating your difficult child [B]your [/B]problem. [B]You're[/B] missing work and shadowing him, [B]you're[/B] being called when he's sleeping, [B]you're [/B]expected to take care of him half days so the school only deals with him for half a day. Legally this is all wrong. It is the [I][B]school's[/B][/I] responsibility to educate your son. If they don't know how to handle him, then they need to be calling in and paying for educational consultants who do. If the aides aren't trained to handle him, then the school needs to provide the training, even if it means sending them out or bringing someone in. If they can't provide an appropriate educational setting for him for the full day, then they need to create one within the district or pay to have him transported to another site (private or in another district) that has a program in place. If an IEP is in place that specifies that if difficult child does X, then Y is to happen, then that's what they should do without bothering you at work. If he needs a para and it's agreed upon by the team in the IEP, then they should be providing it for the X number of minutes per day it's specified. All of this is not optional--it's the [B]LAW[/B]. Paying an advocate or educational attorney to get them to do their job would probably be cheaper and less frustrating in the long run than continually missing work and risking your job. The more you do, the more the school will rely on you. The more your son succeeds in this setting with you in tow, pushing/prodding and/or or picking up the slack, the less leverage you will have to show that the school is not doing their job because he will be more apt to meet his goals and make the grades. I know parents who forced our district to create a class for their child with multiple disabilities because nothing existed in the district or in the area. He was the only student in the class that first year, and other districts sent kids in. It took a lawyer to make it happen but it saved them a boatload in the longrun. [/QUOTE]
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