Alta Loma SD Sues Child with Autism to deny $1,000 Vision Test
The Alta Loma School District would rather spend tax dollars litigating against a child with autism rather than provide a simple vision test. The dispute began last year when the parents challenged the results...
The Alta Loma School District would rather spend tax dollars litigating against a child with autism rather than provide a simple vision test. The dispute began last year when the parents challenged the results...
of the district’s assessments because they did not include Vision Therapy Assessments. The family reported that the child appeared to have trouble with his vision. Enter Dr. Royal Lord III of the West End Special Education Local Plan Area (WESELPA), who told the family...
the WESELPA set a “cap” of $1,000 for Vision Therapy Assessments, never mind that no such cap exists in statute or regulation. The family tried to collaborate with the district and agreed to pay for the difference. Then, WESELPA and Alta Loma got...
their lawyers (TWO of them) out, dragging this simple issue into a Due Process Hearing (open to the public). District witnesses could not get their story straight during the hearing, stating that they would pay for the $1,000 assessment without any conditions, ...
testimony that was contradicted by evidence later introduced. Ultimately, the parent paid for the assessment which turned out to be exactly $1,000—the SELPA cap. But SELPA still did not pay and continued to protract litigation. By the way, advocates calculated...
the exact amount of the SELPA cap and it turned out to be $1,150 not $1,000; so SELPA must be doing some sort of funky common core math that does not match reality.
The Student lost at hearing, which is not uncommon as the Hearing Officers from...
The Student lost at hearing, which is not uncommon as the Hearing Officers from...
the Office of Administrative Hearings, are notoriously district friendly. The family appealed to the federal court and prevailed. The federal Judge also remanded a portion of the case back to hearing. ALSD then got their attorneys out again to try to reverse the federal Judge...
and is bringing the case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a three judge panel. ALSD is obviously interested in litigation and not education and their lawyers from for-profit corporations, are only too happy to oblige as they are making money hand over fist—a real travesty.
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