Still fuming
Feb. 16th, 2010 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakDear Powers That Be at Colorado Springs' Public Schools,
Seriously, District 11?
No room for a just-moved-here military kid?
None?
Seriously?
I can forgive the total snafu of the discrepancy between what I was told over the phone last week, versus what the staff at what should be Mark's school, *and* the lady they told me to call at the main preschool office, told me. It's a bureaucracy. These things happen.
But no room? None? We can merely get moved way up on the list if we include his old IEP when we return the enrollment packet they're now going to mail us?
How exactly does this constitute 'Fair and Appropriate Public Education', I ask you?
Still incensed,
Me
Seriously, District 11?
No room for a just-moved-here military kid?
None?
Seriously?
I can forgive the total snafu of the discrepancy between what I was told over the phone last week, versus what the staff at what should be Mark's school, *and* the lady they told me to call at the main preschool office, told me. It's a bureaucracy. These things happen.
But no room? None? We can merely get moved way up on the list if we include his old IEP when we return the enrollment packet they're now going to mail us?
How exactly does this constitute 'Fair and Appropriate Public Education', I ask you?
Still incensed,
Me
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Date: 2010-02-17 05:15 pm (UTC)It's only compulsory after a certain age. Depending on the district, that age is five or six. Mark is three.
However, for kids with special needs, such as autism, the rules are a little different. Before age three, there are various 'early intervention' programs, called part C services, and given different names in different states. After age three, such services are offered through the school districts, in every state.
I suspect, given the local budget issues, they may try to hem and haw and drag their feet on admitting Mark til next year, because they don't want to have to squeeze more out of an already cramped budget. But they can't legally do that, and if I have to start channeling my favorite Dragaeran and kick their asses, I will.
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Date: 2010-02-17 05:19 pm (UTC)I saw the Morganti Modular Homes when I looked back over your posts, and was amused :)
It's kind of crazy how things make so much less sense when you don't read them in chronological order!