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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have the money to gamble, you put your kid where you want them, pay tuition, and then turn around and file due process to get reimbursement.

It's a BIG gamble, for sure, and don't do it unless an attorney tells you that you have at least some kind of shot, but you have better chances this way than to just file due process and hope OSSE tells them to do a private placement. [/quote]

This is abysmal advice. There is no guarantee of getting into the school you want and if you think DCPS will agree to pay for your private school tuition just because you're already enrolled, I have beachfront property in Kansas that you might be interested in. This is the kind of stuff attorneys were telling their clients a decade ago.   [/quote]
We did unilateral private placement and won.  The challenge is that you need to prove year after year that DCPS messed up.
It is not for the faint of heart. [/quote]

Ditto. We did unilateral placement and won vs DCPS too. And, to PP, my kid isn't "severely disabled" whatever that even means. But they had refused to identify my kid as needing an IEP at all, which was ludicrous even by the results of their own testing, so they lost.

It's not that they just cave, it's that it's a lower burden of proof than convincing them to place the kid outright.  [/quote]

Maybe in the past white privilege was enough but now your child will have to at least be in self-contained. Or your lawyer is excellent and your child is severely disabled. [b]Severely disabled means your child’s needs are so high they cannot be served in a public setting, [/b]private full sped is considered one of the most restrictive environments.[/quote]

Yes, that's the literal definition of who gets funded. That is *the* issue that is litigated at due process. So you aren't really saying anything.[/quote]

Perhaps you should read the comment replied to. They said their child isn’t severely disabled. Disabled isn’t a dirty word.[/quote]

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