[nfbwatlk] Plead For Help

[Mike Freeman]

Is your son blind or visually impaired?

Mike

On Sep 25, 2012, at 6:44, Lillian <adorabletoo at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> 
> My son needs help. He is friendly, outgoing, very social and
> does learn a great deal if taught properly. He has been evaluated at the
> schools request and per their evaluators report has no behavioral issues at all.
> Goes to school full time. There is no self contained classroom at this school.
> 
> 
> On paper it looks like the school district is following the
> IEP, the daily schedule that we were given for last year matched what was written
> on the IEP (70% regular education, 30% pull out for spec ed services). 
> 
> 
> Earlier this year by looking at in writing what was going
> on. It looked like this year they were only allowing him to be in the regular
> education classroom for 30min out of his entire school day. My husband
> questioned the regular ed teacher through email and she was very honest with him. She emailed back and said “we
> are following what was done last year.” This shocked and horrified us. It turns
> out that even though we are at the beginning of the school year and are supposed
> to be following the IEP 70% reg ed 30% pull out. The school last year and this
> year took it upon themselves to ignore the IEP and make my son either go to the
> pull out classroom by himself with para ed or do spec ed work in the hallway by
> himself with para ed. Almost his whole entire day consists of him and a para
> ed. He is not allowed in the classroom with his peers even though his IEP says
> he should be.
> 
>  My heart and my husbands is breaking, along
> with being mad because they are doing this to our son. They are hurting him academically
> (this can be permanent), emotionally (this can be permanent) and socially (this
> can be permanent).
> 
>  
> 
> Please help! We have an attorney, and a very knowledgeable neuropsychologist
> that are aware of this. Our neuropsychologist contacted the spec ed director
> but we are still waiting for him to look into this. The IEP meeting to finalize
> the IEP for this year is not at least for another three weeks.
> 
> 
> Are there any organizations out there that can be contacted
> to see if they can help and put pressure on the school district and the school
> to follow what is written in the IEP?
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Mom in the greater Seattle area
> 
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