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Moi Bloggg
Coatesville, PA
Artisan, musician, educator, and mom to a 16 yo w/Asperger's.
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Moi commented on the article |Who will be running the Disability blog?
I will miss your posts here. Then again, if you and Kristina both leave, what's to keep me here? Trolls? ;)
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Moi commented on the article |Dang, now I gotta fix your link on my blog. lol
I am happy to see you're not going to let the turkeys get you down. ;) See you in your new home!!
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Moi commented on the article |I know what place you're talking about. No. Way. In Hades....
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Moi commented on the article |
Kristina, if you think Charlie has been doing well in his school district, tough crap for them. They need to buck up and do their jobs. They are only saying this because it's going to cost them money - by setting precedent and helping in their facility, they will have to spend money on every kid that goes by. TOUGH. By sending him to private school, they get him out-of-sight, out-of-mind, and the other parents won't know so they will never get what their kids need, either. If you are looking for community embracement, that's DEFINITELY not the way.
This is not time to get philosophical. Don't say it's "easy" to become "Warrior Mom" - there's a REASON to be Warrior Mom, and now is a pretty darn good one. So what about the anger, etc.? That is short term.
Remind yourself that it's not just for Charlie's sake. It's for the sake of every other autistic kid that comes after him, who is there now, and who went through whatever they put them through before Charlie was ever there.
We have that responsibility. If someone had done that for our kids before, then we would not have the problems we do now. We would not have to fight, kids would get what they need. But they didn't, so we do.
You have them by the short hairs - if they have not done evals, of course they have nothing to base their "opinions" on, and it sucks to be them. Don't think they don't know it. Getting your son out of there gets them out of the responsibility because then you will have "condoned" their actions, in legal terminology.
Not to mention -- it also smells like a Middle States or state eval to me.... Made any phone calls to the NJ Department of Ed lately? I think one (and of course, mentioning the lack of evals) might get you the response you want.
A good lawyer could bust them but good. WHY should you have to find him an appropriate placement, and why can't they BE an appropriate placement?? For all our kids? School districts whine about every single kid that's not "ordinary" - well, IMO, it's time to pound some heads. They need to MAKE his placement appropriate.
Maybe if you learn to get some enjoyment out of making them impotent, that will help? ;D
In the meantime, be careful what you post. No need to give them any more ammo, just in case.
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Moi commented on the article |You guys.... Do Not Feed the Trolls.... ;)
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Moi commented on the article |Thanks, but no thanks, I have all the answers I need. People don't usually work for or advise groups or causes that they don't believe in. I don't really want to associate with someone who even remotely associates themselves with FAAAS, let alone take advice from them.
You make your choices, you take the lickins. -
Moi commented on the article |
No, you just wrote a book all about your Aspie. And you called him Mr. Spock. Nice.
Maybe you'd like to ask Tony Attwood why he's on FAAAS advisory panel, if he isn't involved with them? -
Moi commented on the article |
Oh, and I might add, that FAAAS used to be called Families of Adults AFFLICTED with Asperger's Syndrome.
It would be good to know if he was involved with them back then, too.
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