FYI Heard back from our Dept of Ed complaint. The Director of Pupil Personnel Services was able to totally get the district off the hook. This is why parents who approach things like these complaints, Due Process or mediation without an attorney lose 90%+ of the time.
Through justification, partial truths and outright untruths the conclusion was that there was not enough documentation to require any corrective action. You all have been through this with us but they successfully argued that the hat issue was not raised, that the nurse never failed to follow medication orders, that upon learning that color charts exacerbated DD's anxiety they were immediately removed, etc. Needless to say I am disappointed and discouraged. Also any minimal strands of trust I may have had for this DPPS to do the right thing by DD has gone right out the window. We have an IEP meeting scheduled for next week to continue the discussion of Assistive Technology. Yeah I expect that to go well...
