Thread by @SEALS_065

Public comments @ #WESELPA Program Advisory Committee (#PAC), the #SELPA spedheads from Advocate Peter Atwood:
“Some arithmetic: It captures the prevailing attitude that the #WESELPA reimburses 100% to litigate against kids, while only reimbursing 30% to actually do something

for a kid. Ricky [#SELPA Administrator], and the rest of you, so long as the #SELPA makes its priorities that clear with its checkbook, any talk about wanting to work with parents or to do anything for kids is idle chatter. I have two outstanding cases with you all.?

Mary Kate Perez [of @CentralSD] is litigating a #Section504 due process case, and will shortly be getting an #IDEA filing at #OAH too, because she doesn't want to spend a few thousand dollars to help a kid who has crippling problems with reading due to his visual processing

problems. It won't be less than $30K for that taxpayer-funded entertainment. And what else can we do, when they insist on harming the kid, and being passionate enough in that purpose that she wants to spend no less than 4 or 5 times to do harm than she would to behave decently?

Anne Ingulsrud, having been equally determined to harm another one of my kids in that manner, came to an agreement in principle with us at a resolution session, and then Royal Lord put several poison pills in the agreement. We resolved most of those, but now they insist on

limiting the reimbursement pot to nothing but services from [Dr.] Stephey. Since [Dr.] Stephey has on several occasions ended up charging less than expected, being honest and not greedy, maybe they're just trying to claw back a few hundred dollars from the settlement.

Even mediation will cost them more than what they are trying to deprive the kid of. This is how they want to spend the taxpayers' money! Aside from these immediate costs, aren't you sowing dragon's teeth? Some of the parents whose kids you rob and torment in these ways are

thereby moved to advocate for other kids. Most of you do not like me, but you got acquainted with me by @CVUSDNews brutally abusing my son 13 years ago. The other moms who are running for office, lobbying in Sacramento against your efforts to raid the treasury - if you look at

each one, you will notice that with no exceptions it was your mistreatment of their kids that recruited them to fight for others. I'm suggesting that instead of listening to @CSBA_Now and @F3Law (Fagen Friedman and Fulfrost) on how more skillfully to disenfranchise these kids,

maybe you should work with us in good faith to work things out - starting of course by not rewarding the member districts for litigating rather than providing services. Most of the time, it is to your own advantage, not just ours, if you meet the needs of the kids as effectively

and as soon as possible. Obviously that's not happening now. @CJUHSD conceded at hearing that most of their students - not just sped students - don't read at grade level. And what can matter more? Reading easily and well enables you to keep learning even if you didn't learn it

in school. Functional illiteracy ensures failure, diploma or no. @CJUHSD - who is for sure not the only one - is committed to graduating students who cannot read, instead of doing something effective about it. And the elementary districts [@CentralSD, @EtiwandaSD, @AltaLomaSD,