Now they take away our Home Services 2!!
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| Thu, 01-10-2008 - 11:08am |
They don't have an angry enough icon here. After everything else, changing schools several times because Ds is too unusual and schools/services so badly handled that nowhere works out for him OR has any room in the program ... then when we pull him in crisis from yet another school, there is a mandate for no interim home services while we look yet again so we would HAVE to leave him in inappropriate, unsafe school ... SO of course we pull him from the system and spend MONTHS fighting beaurocracies to get him speech, hours of OT, behavioral counseling owed him on IEP and create a homeschool program (insurance covers nothing, so this is important). We find good therapists and that is a great help but every step with DOE takes months and months of inept bookkeeping, etc.
NOW today I find out the New York State is taking away home special ed services for homeschoolers because IDEA isn't clear enough on this point, NY state law doesn't treat homeschoolers as private students so they get no money from feds, and there is no law in State protecting services, so Regents Board just voted them away. I can't speak. I am sitting here shuddering in rage.
We just finished new neuropsych testing, thinking to reapply to private schools for Fall to the very small handful of schools that were interested but had no room or right placement available for Ds last year, but AS WE KNOW, there is no guarantee that we will find a placement, we certainly didn't last year and things get worse here as kids get older. I've almost had it with this country. The idiocy, the idiocy.
Can't write more,
Sara

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But hey, Amy,
Don't minimize YOUR fight, wow! You have been way up against it, too. How's it all going at the moment, esp. with Claire?
And thanks, EVERYONE, for the words of encouragement. It sure gets ridiculously hard some days.
The thing is --- while the services are supposed to be taken away, it looks like it will be put to us that WE need to have his IEP changed to disallow the services, as an IEP IS a legally-binding contract and ours says homeschooling and has all his services on there! Geez, how long do you think it will take me to return the phone calls, letters and emails that the DOE will have to send to get DH and I in there to have our services disallowed? And how long will it TAKE DOE to send those notices in the first place? Methinks those services will take a LONG time to be disallowed, hmmmmm?
After all, I learn from the best... And my voice mail can always be as full, too.
Sara
Hi Sara,
Big ((((HUGS))))
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