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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 DCPS, the bus will only take them HOME. They are not legally required to take them anywhere else unless that place is the address they specified and cannot be changed on a regular basis.

They also cannot not ‘make’ them pay for an evaluation lol. We have school psychologist at our schools who do that and will.

So actually you are misleading OP. [/quote]

Yes, there is a right to an independent evaluation paid for by the school under IDEA. [/quote]

Here you go: IDEA Public Schools either pays for the full cost of the evaluation or ensures that the evaluation is otherwise provided at no cost to the parent, consistent with the provisions of Part B of the IDEA, which allow each State to use whatever State, local, Federal, and private sources.
As in DCPS won’t pay because we have school psyc. They do NOT have to pay for outside evals under idea.

I am a sped teacher and I may not know every single law but I know this one because I work in dcps and parents have tried it and failed.[/quote]

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