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[quote=Anonymous]I pay my lawyer $275/hr and she attends every IEP meeting (and I have a lot - very complicated kid who has a private placement but has not been placed because no such institution exists that meets all of his needs, so he has a split schedule between his home school and other learning institutions). It costs about $10k a year, which would not even be the tip of the iceberg for costs of what he needs annually). The dollar value of what I am getting from the school system is closer to $60k/$70k, so I consider the $10k as a ticket to get the services and interventions that he needs, but that I could not pay for out of pocket. I am already going broke coming up the $10k. I don’t think I would be here without a lawyer. There are some meetings during which I add more value than her and I feel responsible for the outcome, and there are meetings during which she adds more value than me based on some area of special ed law that only she would know about, no matter how much I educate myself. Also, once I got the lawyer is when the school system took notice. Even if she is there and says nothing, there is a positive effect. [/quote]

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