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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I am fully on the side of the parent here, I'm annoyed by the theme that this school might not be the right placement.

Why can't the goal be for the base school to step up to the plate and educate the children assigned to go there? Find a solution, don't just say you can't do it. Instead, school districts prefer to ship kids half way across the county, to schools or centers where they can be quarantined down at the end of dark hallways in closet size classrooms. In classes where they won't receive the same education as their "peers" (term used lightly, since they don't really have the opportunity to have any peers or friends, because they spend 90% of their day in self-contained and live so far away from any of the gen ed kids in the school). Falling further behind educationally and socially every year.

Yes, I know the answer is money. Nobody wants to pay to have resources in place where they are needed. But when it is your child who is suffering due to being forced into an alternative placement because the base school doesn't want to deal, that's not a satisfactory answer. [/quote]

That could happen, but there's also a chance that the kid will end up in a good private placement with better staff who are better equipped to help the kid involved.  The fact that OP's school couldn't deal with this relatively simple situation without calling the police is concerning.[/quote]

Which "good" private placement do you have in mind? The same issues that PP cited with long commutes, isolation from general education peers, watered down curriculum, and low educational expectations exist at private special ed schools too.

The mindset here that if it isn't working, then they need a new school, rather than a new strategy at the current school is concerning.  Calling a parent of a child who isn't sick, and isn't suspended to pick them up is illegal.  It is a violation of FAPE, and it shows that the school isn't problem solving.  Calling the police shows an incredible lack of commitment to the child's physical and emotional safety.  The school needs to either figure out a plan to handle the situation with the staff they have, even if that involves reassigning or retraining staff, or they need to bring in outside supports, whether that's a behavior specialist to write a plan, or extra special education staff to provide support.

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