Sensory Integration Disorder Support Group

I'm faced with a horrible decision. From previous posts, you know that my daughter is not getting services that she needs in school. The services in the IEP are sometimes not followed because of staffing issues and other children's needs in the school (for example, IEP clearly states she will have a para sit WITH her in music 2 days a week and be pulled out 3 days a week; in the last two weeks it's been broken 3 times due to staffing issues or other children's bad behavior that the para sits with them and they don't even have IEPs). So here are my options. Please vote:

1. Leave her in the school she's in and continue to advocate for her. Knowing full well the school regularly violates the IEP. It is a weekly problem. Also, there is a severe lack of OT and the speech path is quitting at the end of the year. They have not found a replacement for her and it's unclear that they will be able to as she wasn't full time (just 4 days a week).

2. Put her in a private school that has great professional services (ot, speech path, among others), but is very limited on para help for things in the classroom. Also private school is beyond our financial means, so we would have to take out a loan (which we wouldn't have a problem getting, FICO Scores are over 700 for both hubby and me).

3. Lie to a bigger public school 30 minutes away about an in district address. I have applied for transfers to get my daughter there. They have been denied because of her needs costing the district to direct monies at her when she isn't in district. They have both the professional services and para staff. I have worked in this district in the past as a teacher. It would be where the most special ed monies are to get my daughter what she truly needs. From experience, they don't openly offer but if you ask you shall receive. Again, it's available.

Of course, we are trying to sell our home to get into the public school we need legitmately. We've tried to sell in the past. It's been off the market for about 9 months (it had been on the market for about 9 months and we needed to remove it so the school would even service her at all; said if we were trying to move she would get "Basic" services...which meant even less than what she is getting now). Btw, OT is 15 minute consult only once a month (he never has to even see my daughter and never comes to IEP meetings). OT is 90 minutes away and calls the sped teacher once a month to cover himself legally.

So, please vote. Thank you!
Posted on 03/09/12, 09:42 am