The first “real” IEP we had while in Charleston did not turn out any better than the first one we had in Richmond. I say first “real” IEP because we had on two different occasions done IEP’s that were written for placement at the Charles Webb Center. We had sat with our case manager and the lead teacher and together formulated Ben’s educational and therapy schedules without any problems whatsoever.
This IEP would be the one which would place him in one of the Charleston County public schools. There were a few areas that we knew going in were going to be points of contention simply because parents who had gone before us had experienced problems and told us about it.
First, the school system was having a lot of trouble dealing with the whole “least restrictive environment” part of the law. They were focused on the part that said “to the greatest extent appropriate”. And their definition of the word “appropriate” only included having the children on the playground for a few minutes together at recess. Life was so much easier when they were able to keep the special needs kids in a self-contained classroom with no contact whatsoever with the other children.
Second, there was a constant struggle with transportation
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. Charleston County had hard and fast rules and they were not going to make any exceptions in fear of “opening a Pandora’s box.” I completely understand this, but the number of children in our district that were identified as having special needs and were Ben’s age could probably be counted with the fingers on one hand. The issue was transporting Ben to Charles Webb after the program as opposed to transporting him home, where there happened to be an empty house since both Dennis and I worked. Our issue was that hundreds of children in Mt. Pleasant were being transported to daycare facilities after school. The problem with taking Ben to Charles Webb was that it was just over the district line (still in the county), and that was against the rules. Since the program in the school was only designed to last for a few hours, without transportation we were having a lot of trouble justifying taking him out of Charles Webb and sending him to the public school.
We had one more year before we were required to send him to a full day of public school, but Dennis and I truly wanted to work with the school system because we felt that the short program would be a good partial transition for him. However, they were completely rigid in what they were willing to do. We had even discussed between ourselves ways to make the transportation issue work. The deal breaker was their unwillingness to commit to any real provisions for a least restrictive environment. They were very anxious to get Ben into the public school system, and I’m assuming their concerns were based upon statistics they had to report to the “powers that be”. They didn’t give us a lot of reason to believe that their concerns had anything to do with what was best for Ben (but I could be wrong).
The result: Once again after about two days of negotiating; we chose not to sign the IEP and left Ben at Charles Webb another year until he was eligible for the full day Kindergarten program.
……It turned out that all we were doing was “kicking the can down the road”; because this battle was not over.
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