Yesterday I substitute taught in a pre k special education classroom

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43. When my son was in middle school in 6th grade in public school it was awful

The staff did not now how to deal with so many kids on the spectrum. They called me one day to pick him up and he was bawling like a baby on the sidewalk and I find out they had shut him inappropriately in a closet most of the day. I took the next day off and called the school district and threatened to get a lawyer. The previous two years I was on school district autism task force and got to know the head of special ed and other district personnel. I told them they should start preparing for the surge of students coming into middle school. Then I found out the district was paying an average of $100,000 to lawyers per student to defend placements. I told them I knew this and wanted him in a private school. And I was willing to get a lawyer. They called me back within a half an hour and gave me names of private schools. I toured them all and found one that my son went up to age 21. The irony was the methods of behavior management they taught in these private schools could have easily been used in public schools.