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Anonymous wrote:Letters are going out en masse saying if you want full services, enroll in DCPS. If you stay in private, you'll get some seriously watered down version which certainly isn't equitable. Sounds like a lawsuit on DCPS. Why would they want my SN kid enrolled in DCPS, because all I'd do then is sue them more routinely for their incompetence and inability to maintain a safe classroom? FYI - Filing lawsuits are easy these days and done online in your underwear; just press "Submit".

Filing is easy enough. keeping them alive in court here in DC is quite another. The parents aren't actually winning much anymore, like they used to when DCPS just rolled over, didn't even show up in court, and just wrote an annual $70K check to the upper middle class, savvy family. (oh, and lawyer fees. So, so many SN education lawyer fees)

Welcome to 2016.

Also, if you've been reading upthread, what DCPS is proposing has passed muster in other federal district courts in other states. It's legit. Sorry.

Maybe, but you can't change policies without a substantive rulemaking. You should have been reading that upthread too. People relied on the past practice of direct services, signed tuition agreements, and didn't participate in the lottery for 2016-2017. This abrupt action by DCPS violates the Admin. Procedures Act, and should have only been effective for the 2017-2018 school year after actual rulemaking. Looks like DCPS is continuing to get shoddy legal advice, or disregarding it. The judge will know.

PS - I sued DCPS and OAG showed. I got what I wanted, and only the judge cared. DCPS may not care about your kid, but a Superior Court judge just might. Shame on DCPS.

PP, you sound like a cold DCPS employee, or a city lawyer that represents them. Try an ethics refresher.

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't against the law. We are ACPS and considered holding DD back or doing private, and I looked it up. Schook districts can choose to provide services to school aged children not in public school or not. We would have gotten half the services we qualified for under ACPS rules. So, in the end we decided that public school was the right decision because we wanted her to get the full services she needed.

It sucks and it's really unfair, but technically it's allowed.

You may wanna look again. You're wrong on the law. If you're in public, why are you trolling this site?

I just posted saying I ran the Student Hearing Office. I don't remember this requirement at all. You always have the ability to sue OSSE to get your child placed, but good luck. And...it's easier to sue here then any other jurisdiction. All other jurisdictions would tell you to suck rocks! It's expensive.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not your status as a taxpayer that entitles you to those services; it's your child's status as a resident and a student with special needs.

I know but PP seems to feel my child is taking something from her child. My child is both a resident and special needs student. It isn't like I am getting something for nothing all at her child's expense.

There is no group so entitled in DCPS as the special needs parents. My kids have been with mainstreamed SN kids in every class who couldn't participate and took up a large share of the teacher's time, but they have every right to be there so they are. I've requested to keep my kids out of mainstreamed classrooms so they can go at a faster pace, but my kids don't deserve to have their needs met like the SN kids do.

+1Million! I have a SNs kid. I also used to manage the Student Hearing Office and Bus Transportation. I've never seen anything like the entitlement of SNs parents in DC. I'll tell you this -- DC offers TONS more than other jurisdictions! I've visited almost every school district surrounding DC and they looked at us like we were crazy!