November 30, 2006

  • Good News/Bad News

    Well, yesterday we thought we had it all cleared up. Through our magnificent lawyer and by the grace of God, we had successfully mediated with the school district for all of Noah's therapy. At first we were going to get none of it, but then yesterday our lawyer faxed us papers to sign with the school district agreeing to all of our terms (basically). We were overjoyed!
    Today, however, we received a phone call from our lawyer stating that he had found something in the final draft of the mediation agreement stating that the school district was going to try and do something completely illegal once Noah turned 4 years old. They were going to have us sign that they would not be responsible to pay for "Stay Put", a special law that says if a child is receiving services and two parties are unable to reach an agreement for provision of services, the child would be able to "Stay Put" in their current services (while the district pays for it) until we reach agreement. Sometimes this can go on for years. However, they were trying to circumvent the law in this area and have us all agree to it--but because our lawyer is the bomb, he found it before he sent it back. And NO WAY are we agreeable to that.
    So, basically, he gave them another day (Dec 1st is the deadline) to reach mediation (and in this case, take that out of the contract) or we're going to federal court.

    Yikes.

    Well...at least we'll have the ACLU on our backs! (hahaha)

    Please pray. We're hoping this gets resolved before we have to do the federal court thing--it only hurts Noah. It's also a little bit of an emotional roller coaster to think yesterday this was all over, and today it is SO not. Crazy.

    On a completely unrelated note: I'll explain the whole articulation agreement thing at another time...

Comments (11)

  • Oh they are so sneaky!!! Sounds like you have a good lawyer though. I'll bet they already have the alterntive contract drawn up just in case. I will be praying all goes well.

  • Did Jen send you the coloring book for lawyers? If not, I'll send it to you. If so, you should color your underpants important.

  • Oh, man, that is sooooo not right!  Good job, Mr. Lawyer-Man!  Hang in there!  We are praying!

  • "Well...at least we'll have the ACLU on our backs! (hahaha)"

    That makes it sound like they're against you, when actually they're on your side.

  • I'm not a big fan of emotional roller coasters.  Here's hoping everything gets resolved soon & you don't have to go to court.  God will provide His strength for the journey either way, I know.  :o )

  • ^^^I think I meant "At least the ACLU has got our back"...OOPS!!

  • Thinking about you and praying!

  • I teach kindergarten thank you very much and NO we don't learn about paragraphs in kindergarten. (OH SNAP!) just kidding, anyways, I'll take your paragraph idea into serious consideration. Thank you for your comments and concern for my vocab. and paragraph problems.

  • At least you didn't say "At least the ACLU has got back!"

    You know, like baby got... nevermind.

  • Praying for you! Thank the Lord for smart lawyers.  I do wanna hear more about the Articulation Agreement!

  • Okay, now--it's December 2nd and no post.  I am dying here to hear what happened.  Did they make the deadline and mediate?  Dying here...must have info...

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