The school suspended my son..... is this legal?

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Alright, so the amazing school we have is maybe not so much.  Or maybe I'm being too hard on them.My son had a major meltdown today.  The school called me about an hour after I dropped him off in the morning.  When I went to pick him up he was lying on the floor thrashing around and screaming "help me mommy!!".  He was kind of halfheartedly slapping at the teachers around him, and he was trying very hard to run away.  It took me 20 minutes to get him calmed down enough to get into the van with me.Within an hour, he was fine, and we went to do a social work eval so we can get his IEP done.  When we got home, there was a message from the principal telling me that he is not allowed to be at the school all next week, aside from the

hour and a half when he will get his speech eval done.  And after all the evals are done, they will get together and reevaluate having him at the school.  Am I missing something?  I thought public schools HAD to provide services.  He did not have a weapon.  He did not hurt anyone.  Are they allowed to do this?  It makes it very hard on my family because my older two girls go to that school and there is no bussing.  How in the world can I get him into the van twice a day to drop his sisters off and pick them up when he doesn't get to stay.... he really loves school.I can understand why they can't deal with him now, because they aren't really equipped to.  His IEP isn't done yet, so he doesn't have an aide or anything.  But to say they will reevaluate whether they can have him there?  That makes me feel all sorts of angry, but before I get too upset about it I want to make sure I'm correct

about what is supposed to happen.I should say, too, that the first two days the school called me to pick him up he wasn't doing anything that bad.  I think he threw the name tag on his desk away and pushed some paperwork on the floor the first day.  The second day he yelled during class a few times and was apparently disruptive because of that, and there might have been one other similar thing.  Oh, I remember.... he went and stood by the door and they were afraid he was going to try and run.  So it's not like he's been having major meltdowns all week.Thanks for any thoughts.Jen