Re: son locked out of school

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He should have an IEP and a behavior plan. You may need to get an advocate or a

lawyer in order to get a reasonable behavior plan, unfortunately. Consider

introducing any new supps on a weekend so you can observe for reactions...

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iVORYOURS@... wrote:

Hello, My son is 15 years old and sometimes when he tries a new vitamin

or other things that might upset him, one way or another, i.e., gas pains etc..

He sometimes not very often, will have a meltdown in school. The last time

he did the school freaked out and locked him outside the school. The teacher

was holding the door so he could not get back in, and one other teacher and a

police officer watched to make sure he did not hurt himself or anyone else, if

so they would have to handcuff him. (Something that would make him freak out

more) My question is: Is there something else they could do to not lock him

outside of the school. Has this happened to anyone?

Thanks

Janis

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You may still have to really push for it and possibly bring in an advocate or

lawyer or at least consult one. No more challenge tests!

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Re: son locked out of school

Posted by: " iVORYOURS@... " iVORYOURS@... ivoryours05

Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:58 pm (PST)

My son has an IEP, but it does not cover a behavior plan. The last IEP

meeting it the question was raised, from my sons other program that picks him up

after school 12 to 2pm. But nothing was done. We mentioned that Mikey should

have a place to go that he can let off and steam, and gather himself. But I

guess no one is heard what we said, well maybe they will now.

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Hello -

What do you mean by " meltdown " ? When my daughter is really bad she

will sometimes get aggressive and try to hurt someone. She really

does go into attack mode. What works for her is just to get her off

someplace where she can't hurt anyone, but that requires her to be

restrained at least while being transported. Where they trying to

prevent him from hurting someone? Given his age there are limited

options, perhaps they were just trying to be safe until he calmed

down so that he wouldn't end up hurt or hurting someone else. I am

both a Special Ed. teacher and the parent of an extremely

challenging child, so I can see from both vantage points.

Unfortunatly both parents and teachers have a tendency to blame the

other, instead of teaming up to solve problems. Perhaps you could

get together with the teacher and do some problem solving. I would

hold off on the advocate/lawyer approach for a little while to keep

things from getting more hostile if you can.

Good luck-

Patty