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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a private placement and know several other families who do.  When you get a placement it's because the school system is unable to educate your child in an appropriate setting.  It has nothing to do with severity of need as many public systems do have programs for children who are gravely impaired.  You need to educate yourself on FAPE.  Our finances have nothing to do with our placement.  I also resent the tone of your post which seems to imply somehow we are getting away with something.  If we have any kind of advantage it is not financial it is that I have devoted myself to "fixing" my kid and as such spend ridiculous amounts of time learning about special education and people and programs who might help him including an advocate and a lawyer.  I am happy where we have ended up for the moment but no private is perfect and there aren't many choices.  If we had not agreed to our current placement I'm really not sure where else we would have gone.  [/quote]

Finances do have a lot to do with placement as you could afford to hire an advocate and attorney which many families cannot afford.[/quote]

Our legal expenses were minimal and I know at least one family who prevailed in a CIEP meeting with no lawyer.  It's really not as hard as you think.  We and the other people we know are middle class.  It's completely kid-dependent.[/quote]

You probably aren't true middle class and are DCUM middle class.  I don't know anyone successful with anything except to hire an advocate or attorney.  We gave up and did private services as we'd rather spend our money helping our child vs. fighting a system that is near impossible to win.  If you child's situation is such, it may not be hard, but for the rest of us even just to get basic supports is near impossible or even to follow the IEP they wrote without our input. [/quote]

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