UPDATE about ...

March 3, 2008

Dear all,

Thank you for all that you have wrote and suggested with regards to the

continuing SAGA of and the incident at school. Tomorrow, it will be a

week. Nothing new has been done. The boy has not been removed from school. He

has been placed behind a partition where he can have no further contact with

others. Boy, isn't that a REAL BANDAID of a fixer upper! (In my opinion)

is healing and has permanent scars on her neck and face. The scabs have

fallen off finally. Here's the latest on the administration side of things...My

hubby called the Principal today. This has to be treated as the first incident

for the little boy. THERE IS NO PAPER TRAIL FROM ALL THE PREVIOUS INCIDENTS

WITH MY DAUGHTER AND THE STAFF!!!! WOW, can you believe it? The principal said

this is the first time she has been notified of this student's agressive

behaviors. We are so, so mad. I also called the state Department of Special

Education today. I was told by

a Special Ed. Coordinator that unless the violated some form of IDEA that I can

NOT file a complaint with them. He saw nothing violated when I explained the

situation to him. We have chosen to keep out of school. This was not

something that we wanted to do because we feel like we are punishing her. She

absolutely loves school. However, until they can prove to us that she is safe,

we cannot let her return to school. In doing this, we have been instructed by

the State dept. of Sped. that we can ask for a " Change of Placement " IEP. I did

formerly ask for this today in an email to the school. They won't like this

because this will force them to pay the bucks for to be homeschooled. We

have had problems before, just in August of 2007, with them not sending home

bound instruction. (She had double hip surgery and they left her here at home

with no schooling for 6 weeks.) We don't think that they will be agreeing to

the home school and it

will be another fight on our hands. I am very upset right now, too, that the

disability Law center of OK has not contacted us with an appointment date or a

call from a lawyer. I phoned them last Thursday with regards to this matter and

we have had 1 phone call from an advocate to take down more information. We are

very ancy to get this resolved and move on. If yal have any ideas, clue me in.

Thanks again for listening. We are trying our best to do what is right for Miss

. Please continue to pray for resolve.

Rebekah

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March 3, 2008

Good job advocating, Rebekah.

Remember to document everything. If it is a phone call, follow it up with a

letter saying, this is a follow up to our phone conversation where " this " was

said.

Keep an ongoing log of all that is transpiring. Phone calls, meetings, letters,

visits on the side, everyone you talk to.

Also, I wonder if you can talk to other parents in the class who may also have

had some problems with their child and this boy. I wonder if you could talk to

the boy's parents. Perhaps they have been asking for more support/help for

their son and not getting it. You could help each other.

As for keeping her out of school.. you are keeping her safe, making a statement,

and hitting them where it counts.. in the pocketbook. They don't get funding

on the days she is out of school. Although there IS a deadline as I'm sure you

know and you'll have to have the placement changed to homebound services by

then.

Keep it up, and our prayers are still going out all involved in this.

March 3, 2008

Hi Rebekah

Gosh to me it seems you have covered all of the bases. Can you file a state

complaint? I’m trying to think from what you told us of any IDEA violations

Years ago a similar incident happened to a friend of mines child. She got me

involved, as she didn’t know what to do. I had her immediately call an IEP

meeting waiving her 10-day notice. I brought a tape recorder the table was

stacked with many administrators so she was so glad I was there. We had another

friend who helped us also ............ she wrote up all the state complaints

from the violations at the meeting. Anyway we wanted a copy of the incident

report, we wanted her child moved to another classroom and we wanted the truth.

I felt so bad because the child who was disruptive really should not been in

this class and his mom was fighting the school also for his proper placement and

help with his behaviors. It was so long ago but I do remember she got all she

asked for after the compliance monitors came to town

Hiring an attorney is tricky in many areas, rural areas don’t have them,

sometimes big cites as in MEMPHIS don't have one, the state protection advocacy

didn’t want to represent school issues sooooooo we really had to rely on

ourselves or other parent advocates. You are doing such a great job that my only

advice would be call an IEP meeting, add this to your paper trail and if at the

meeting there are any infractions file a state complaint.

Right now in our news our lawmakers are trying to fix a big mess here, an

elementary girl with autism was sexually abused by another sped student (many

times) on the bus. The school did not notify the parents said by state law said

they didn’t have to because of the confidentiality laws. Lawmakers are working

on changing this. I’m checking into this story to see what is up, I’m also

contacting our county to see what its policy is on this issue. I may have to get

it into print on Sara's IEP that they have to notify me of every incident and I

will

I'll be back on that story ............

Prayers are with you, stay strong

Kathy mom to Sara 16

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From: Jeffery/Rebekah Fish <fourgivenfish@...>

Dear all,

Thank you for all that you have wrote and suggested with regards to the

continuing SAGA of and the incident at school. Tomorrow, it will be a

week. Nothing new has been done. The boy has not been removed from school. He

has been placed behind a partition where he can have no further contact with

others. Boy, isn't that a REAL BANDAID of a fixer upper! (In my opinion)

is healing and has permanent scars on her neck and face. The scabs have fallen

off finally. Here's the latest on the administration side of things...My hubby

called the Principal today. This has to be treated as the first incident for the

little boy. THERE IS NO PAPER TRAIL FROM ALL THE PREVIOUS INCIDENTS WITH MY

DAUGHTER AND THE STAFF!!!! WOW, can you believe it? The principal said this is

the first time she has been notified of this student's agressive behaviors. We

are so, so mad. I also called the state Department of Special Education today. I

was told by