The school district is gonna hear from me today and I’m not playing with them on this one.

The school district is gonna hear from me today and I’m not playing with them on this one.

10 days ago I got a call from a speech language pathologist asking me to schedule my son’s summer speech. Huh? I had my son put in the summer school program through his IEP. He was to get his speech there as well as through the university so I was super confused. I called the pathologist back, she saw that I was right and told me he will be getting his speech in summer school. She called me after contacting the program coordinator in regards to this mistake and said they’re going to fix their error.

Fast forward a week. I’m talking to my son’s teacher and asked her if she’s teaching summer school. She said no but she knows who is. She said, “It’s weird, I don’t have confirmation that he’s here at all but it’s in his IEP so it should be okay”.

No, this is not okay. My son has only been in your system for two months and you have already been misplacing him? It’s been 10 days and I still lack any real confirmation? Not acceptable.

The email was full of screenshots from their emails to me, stats quoted, the whole nine yards and I’ve already left a voicemail. I’m calling my connections to figure out my rights on this one because this should’ve never happened in the first place, not with how air tight I made sure my child’s IEP was. My fellow parents in my local African American group for parents with children with Autism have all told me that I need to just call an emergency IEP meeting because their administrative errors have the potential of my son falling into the cracks and I need to put stronger safeguards in place. They also agreed that this is too soon for these kinds of things to happen to my son. These women have been through it though and this is just my start so I will give them until end of business on Friday to figure it out while I do my own research to be better informed and empowered.

Ugh, so irritated.