A Educational Nightmare at Rochester Public Schools - Independent School District #535!

I'll be honest, both me and my wife had serious reservations about how this meeting would progress and if there would be the same rough and uneasy atmosphere the Friday meeting had.

No one recording the meeting. No nasty stares. No school nurse flinging papers our direction (about made me laugh). Juts decency and civility.

This time, the meeting went fluid and like a well oil machine.

I bought up the autistic spectrum classification testing for the I.E P. evaluation process and they agreed it was a good idea and just accidentally over looked.

They modified the plan right then and there from an Ipad and had a fresh, up to date copy printed out.

Kind of blew me away, a complete 360 from the animosity and nastiness of the 1st meeting.

The only part that irked me was the fact that the Asst. Sup. had agreed that the "illegal" no communications order given by admin leadership would be lifted immediately and this still hadn't filtered down to the schools yet.

I still have a nasty taste in my mouth about a educator in a leadership position deliberately violating a parent's civil rights and order all schools to not contact the other parent by proxies.

When the Asst. Sup. Brenda confirmed my suspicions last Friday, I knew my gut feelings and hunches were right. We were getting fire-walled out of kids educational process. Me, my a very deliberate, nasty, attack based letter and my wife with no such "illegal" letter in tow. 

I have a theory about this no "infamous" denial of my free speech" letter. Someone from the schools legal team or a higher up probably brought up the points that A, the letter is illegal as sin and B, makes the Superintendent look really bad.

It was a complete over reaction and their was no justification. The punishment did not fit the crime. then the wording of the letter was almost like a dare, go ahead if you feel the need to do certain things.

Ok, got a free lawyer though a St. Paul Legal Aide Society for all 3 kids and the parents. A Social worker and a Counselor now have intimate knowledge of what is going on.

The only piece I'm not taking an active part in is activism as I don't have the free time or resources to take on another project right now. Too much on my plate currently.

I just push documents, my feelings, the good and bad and law things to this blog.

I'm also using this to bring attention to the struggle's parents with disabled kids go through with a ton of laws designed to help them, but often ignored, sadly. 

People can read the sum of all that is here and make opinions for themselves.

No need to go to the top of the mountains and yell, I just wait for search engine bots to do their thing, aka organic SEO.

I was like really? Haven't e went down this horrible communication road once before?

One of the Student support guys sitting in went and checked and of course, I was telling the truth.

10 secs to flick a quick email, 5-8 seconds for a quick call. They all carry Ipad's, 5-10 seconds to send out a message via IOS messenger to everyone involved?

Al of this high technology and the core issue still remains, "very poor communication between all of the parties involved."

Some things just never amuse me anymore?   

Oh well, I'm not perfect, so I'm not going to hold them to high standards, I guess...

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