Conversation

Waiting - impatiently - for the associate attorney to send us the draft of the due process complaint for our review. And I'm reading about what happens if the DOED - not DOE as I recently learned that stands for the Department of Energy - is eliminated.

Well, in our world, as our son receives Special Education services AND attends a Title I school, the district may need to rethink how it approaches disputes involving Special Education at Title I schools.

Our first dispute started in 2021, just six months after my husband was elected to his position as a School Board Member representing the area of our city with the most Title I schools and low test scores. A district official told him that if he wanted his son to receive a good education, he needed to move his son to a good school on the other side of town.

"I have to move my kid from the school I represent to get a good education? Is that what you said?" my husband asked.

The district official did not respond.