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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to disagree with the prior poster, the extreme safety issues presented with running away means you should go directly to lawyer. You need all the firepower you can in your corner before this escalates even further. [/quote]

And I disagree with you.  As a lawyer, I can tell you that legal skills don't help with creating and implementing a behavioral plan!  If what you mean is that she needs to get him into a self-contained class or private placement ASAP, I guess so - but not clear that OP actually understands what that entails, especially for a 2E kid.  I can share that for my child who had serious behavioral issues (albeit not elopement) a properly designed behavioral plan worked.  OP needs the support of a psychologist/consultant who can work with the school to create and implement the plan.  It may be painful for a while waiting to see if the plan can work, but otherwise, you're just jumping to put your kid into a private placement that deals with behavioral challenges or a self-contained program with reports like this:  https://www.hillrag.com/2021/03/22/dcps-child-abuse-suit-expands/

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With all due respect, you're aware that lawyers can compel school systems to pay for public school placements, right? Like paying for a bus to send a kid to a public school with an emotional disturbance center. They also can make them pay for a free evaluation. Equating lawyer=private school is simply misinformation. Not trying to start an arguement! I just don't want OP to be inadvertently mislead. [/quote]

Not sure what you're trying to say. A lawyer can't compel the school to do anything, but they can file a lawsuit/due process.  The options would be a self-contained classroom, for which there really are not great options in DCPS for 2E kids. The ones that exist are for HFA, in at SWS and SWW-FS, so not sure if OP's child could even be placed there, unless I am mistaken.  Then a private placement would be at some place that probably routinely does seclusion & restraint, and far away so that OP couldn't even really keep tabs.  Trying to get the kid stabilized in the present placement would be my #1 option.  [/quote]

Often it takes a lawyer filing a lawsuit to get things moving.  This placement isn't working and you are giving bad advice.  This child will miss an entire year of academics as they aren't even in the classroom.

And, for some privates, they only take government money so you cannot get into them withough school funding.[/quote]

They haven't even done the FBA and you're concluding the placement isn't working? If there were some magical wonderful place for OP's child to go, great. But the options are not great. If you know more about the DCPS self-contained and private placement options, let us know. [/quote]

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