I’ll tell of my friend from Colorado. His son had to be sent to a special school, 60 miles one way. With the meds he takes, the heat makes him beligerent, it’s a frequent side effect of the medications. The school was busing him in 100+ degree heat with no AC, because running the AC cost gas.

This kid would literally get off the bus drenched, then spend the rest of the evening sick and since he was non-verbal, very difficult to control. He had won the fight to get the AC turned on. But the bus driver, being the nice guy he was, told the parent that he was told to only turn it on 10 miles away from their home, the rest of the way he was to leave it turned off. But the parent couldn’t then rat out the driver for telling him the truth, so he had to ‘catch’ the driver with the AC off when his son was hot. The school said that the AC was broken that particular day.

Schools lie to you. You may not want to believe that, but they do it and smile right in your face when they do. And you may have the best meaning teacher in the world, but she has to answer to someone else.

And, who is to assure the IEP is being followed if the parent cannot make an unscheduled visit?

Fortunately for me, I’ve had no personal experience with Special Ed in your area; one of our girls was in the Gifted Program, so my perspective is from there. We had to become ‘more involved’ her eighth grade year to assure the IEP was being followed on her going to East High from Robinson for Geometry; in fact, my wife had to personally go to East to straighten out a scheduling problem, and we further ruffled more than a few feathers by direct contact with the Transportation Office to ensure her travel between Robinson and East. I realize this is a relatively trivial example, but is offered to demonstrate the degree that parents often have to pick up the trail to get things that are required done.

This is the thing about special ed kids. They don’t necessarily follow the rest of the kid’s curriculum. They have special needs that are supposed to be attended to.

When I pop in, there are things that are supposed to be happening that arent. Ask any parent with a special needs kid, it’s truly insanity. It’s like they resent having to do extra for our kids (some do, some are fabulous). They’re thrilled to get that extra funding for our kids but they don’t want to do anything with it.

there were schools here in kansas that were locking our kids in boxes! IN BOXES.

I could tell horror stories from other parents. I just wanna walk in and see when he’s having speech, that they’re doing it according to his iep. that’s all. I don’t think that is too much to ask.

That’s why God gave ‘em a little extra padding back there.

Nowm if you REALLY want to make sure of access – volunteer to help. I have NEVER seen a school turn down free labor!

This would be really popular in today’s pol climate.Probably better than BillO vs Franken.

Whadya’ think?Could be good money!We all like money.

LOL!

I know people. I know how to manage interpersonal relationships. It’s not difficult, but you can’t be overly demanding nor a know-it-all.

So again, you’re wrong. Try reading wrightslaw site, it’s a real eye opener for the crap kids with disabilities have to deal with.

There are even books written about this whole special ed fight with the schools.

See Schaffer vs Weast.

Oh yeah, you have a ’special needs’ kid so the rules don’t apply to you. heh.

Although, I have excellent rapport with my kids’ teachers. I don’t criticize what they do, and I don’t threaten a lawsuit everytime a child needs discipline.

I guess i just ASSUMED that those rules applied to schools… I have never seen a parent denied the right to see their kid at school… Granted, most parents dont just “stop by” the schools, they usually have a reason for going, but still… It may just be our school… Im going to ask though once the break is over just find out what their policy is.

as for Kline, i hope the first thing Morrison does is bring charges against Kline. That would be fun.

The supreme court has almost made this a set up for someone to bring it. It stems from handicapped kids being denied their education, and parents not being able to prove that the curriculum and IEP were being followed.

We shouldn’t need a lawsuit to make this happen. We should just pass a law. We already have them in place for daycare centers and nursing homes, so why can’t we have them for schools too.

File what? the only one doing anything illegal is Kline… Using state resources for his reflection and invading private medical records and leaking them…

So far, not seeing anything…

I guess im not sure what ur talking about full access to the classroom anytime.

My kids teacher says we can come when ever we want. She asked that if we were goin to stay long that she would plan extra activities but other than that, we are free to come and go…

Please elaborate…

The other story, a teacher’s assistant accused of molesting kids at the school…another reason why parents need full access to their kids in the classroom at anytime. Someone help me get this law passed!