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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be very cautious with special ed attorneys and consultants.
They are often way to optimistic and don't present a realist view of what is happening in these cases.  Since Gray entered office, there have been a tremendous cutback of private funding, even in solid cases.

If attorneys presented a realistic scenario, they'd scare aware 
Clients.

If you don't have independent testing and advocates/therapists to testify about your child, you will never win.  Bringing a case will easily cost 20K (attorney's fees, expert testimony, independent testing, etc).

Even if you prevail, no one wins funding for more than one year-you have to continue a lengthy, stressful and expensive case EVERY year.

In the end, even if you win against a system stacked against you, you may come ahead by $10-$15K each year once all fees have been paid.  Most attorney's fees are well above what DC will reimburse if you win.

These cases are time consuming and stressful for families.  DCPS drags things out as much as possible to cost you more legal fees, hoping you'll give up.

[b]If it were a one time thing, maybe it would be worth it but having to repeat the inevitable insanity every year is not worth it!
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Please shut up.  That is not true.  You are obviously ignorant of the law, your misinformation is misleading and possibly designed to discourage.  Just shut up.  Keep your ignorance to yourself before you infect somebody else. [/quote]

Let's bring it down a few notches, shall we? OP asked for help in an anonymous forum to hear about experiences and opinions from parents, not to get legal advice. We all know that every case is different and we have all faced frustrations or we wouldn't be checking this forum. This thread is about a child's education and a family's emotional well-being. There's no need to twist it into being about adults shutting up, getting therapy, or paying taxes.

FWIW, our experience has been similar to PP's who said it is not worth it. However, we have chosen to go the year-by-year route for our own reasons. Every case, like every child, is different.

Before spending more money on professional services or moving, explore public and charter options in DC for yourself. If you find a program and administrators in a public or charter school who [u]can and want [/u]to implement IEP, then OSSE will be able to help your child get into that public or charter school to ensure FAPE in LRE. (God, I hate acronyms.) Do the same homework for MCPS before thinking about moving.

If a specific private school can implement your child's IEP [b][i]and [/i][/b]your child has been accepted at said school [b][i]and[/b][/i] you enroll your child by paying fees upfront, then you [i][b]might [/b][/i]get reimbursement for tuition but not necessarily fees or outside services.

The new normal, for good or bad and for lots of reasons, is that DCPS will not proactively place or pay for your child to go to a private school.

HTH[/quote]

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