Parents be on alert! Districts are trying to take custody of your child with special needs!
School districts like @CJUHSD and the @AltaLomaSD are using the legal system to intimidate parents into silence about their child’s educational rights. The law firm of choice is @F3Law
who has filed multiple legal actions against parents to remove the parent as the child’s guardian. Please private message if you would like to read the entire Court order which, goes into detail about how FFF filed a Motion to exclude the parent from making legal decisions about
their child with autism. AFTER the school district had agreed to settle the case, according to the order:
“Defendant filed an opposition to the motion for settlement approval”
Thankfully, FFF failed in their attempt to remove the parent as the Guardian for a student who
obviously cannot possibly understand all the legalities involved. The Court ruled against FFF saying:
“For the reasons discussed below, the court now finds that plaintiff is legally incompetent under California law, appoints his father (name redacted for privacy) as his
guardian ad litem”
The Court went on to show how wrong FFF was for 17 pages, including stating that “defense counsel disregarded the court’s April 26, 2022 order ….”
FFF used the same hardball tactic in Alta Loma. They sued two brothers with autism within 48 hours of each
other and then went to Court to get the Judge to remove the parent from the cases and appoint a foster parent. #iep#educationnotlitigation
Don English, man @CJUHSD appointed to fill Area 2 school board seat for the last year -- appears to have substantial conflict of interests. English is employed by @SBCo_Supt_Ted, therefore students, special ed and regular, who are expelled from @CJUHSD Board are sent for appeals
to SB County and guess who is involved in this student's appeal process -- Don English again.
POST FROM "STAND UP SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY"
Don English is involved in lawsuit filed against San Bernardino County by @ColtonJUSD for violating student privacy during expulsion hearing
process.
Don English was appointed to the @CJUHSD board and is running to be elected this election. He is also an employee of the @SBCo_Supt_Ted. Per this court document under #17 it states “According to Mr. English, the appeal was accepted because A.V. and A.V.’s guardians did
I attended #WESELPA's Propaganda Fest at @CentralSD this past Thursday entitled: "Building Positive Relationships with Your School Community" - a training for parents led by Program Manager Anthony Farenga. It's was very troubling and just another way that the schools
think they own our children. I saw this in their core beliefs where Core Belief #1 was "teachers and parents have dreams for their students". I'm sorry but no teacher gets to dream about my child. They have no claim to their life and future. They need to focus on teaching them to
read, write and do math. Another Core Belief was "Families and Staff are equal partners". I at least wish this were true in the IEP meeting as it's supposed to be but it's not. School Admin bully parents and refuse to provide services that will actually benefit students with
URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Stop the Government from Silencing YOU!
CA SB 1100 gives control to government agencies like city councils, county boards and school boards to create and use their OWN policies and regulations to define your actions at meetings as “disruptive” and gives
them unfettered power to physically remove you if you violate their policies or regulations! This can be easily abused for the reasons below. Please take JUST 5 MINTUES to ensure that your rights to FREE SPEECH under the First Amendment and the California Constitution are not
jeopardized! This is being heard at the Judicial Committee on Tuesday, June 21st – please send it prior to the meeting! To see the latest revision of this bill go to: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…
Steps: 1) Go to: calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/ to create an account (just email & password)
A HUGE win for special education family and an embarrassing loss for #WESELPA attorneys from @F3Law -- A Federal Judge just smacked down attempts by the law firms of Fagen, Friedman and Fulfrost to sanction an attorney who represents a family of a student with disabilities in
@AltaLomaSD. @F3Law continues to employ the sanctions tactic unsuccessfully, despite a unanimous decision by the #WESELPA Superintendent’s Council not to pursue a sanctions policy in the WESELPA.
I believe FFF is marketing these motions because they get paid by the
#WESELPA Joint Risk Fund win or lose. It is almost certain that @F3Law got paid with special education dollars to pursue such motions. Please email your school board and urge them not to turn a blind eye to the injustices being perpetrated by FFF against children in the WESELPA.
OBTAINING EMAILS/TEXTS ABOUT YOUR CHILD. Emails and texts are NOT considered "student records" but parents CAN obtain them via PUBLIC records. I've created a little background fact sheet so you can understand why that is. The main issue is that FERPA says only records that are
identifiable and are MAINTAINED are student records. The courts have defined "maintained" as in a physical file. So, emails and texts (and Google docs communications, etc), unless they are printed and put in a physical file, are not considered "educational records." However,
they are PUBLIC RECORDS which you can get via a Public Records Act request. Remember to request ALL COMMUNICATIONS since the district staff also use things like Google Docs to communicate, as well as text messages. (You can even get text messages sent on personal cell phones!)
Selpas need their own audit, independent auditor says-- See SEALs email to #WESELPA Administrator @RickyAlyassi.
Dear Ricky,
Hope you had a nice holiday season. I wanted to let you know that this past Monday, the San Bernardino County Board of Education heard a report from an
independent auditor. During the presentation, I asked the auditor regarding the SELPA's responsibility to perform an audit. I asked the auditor if the audit presented to the County Board encompassed all of the programs of the SELPAs since SELPAs have their own board. The auditor
specifically stated that the audit to the County Board did not cover all of the SELPA programs and that SELPAs are responsible to perform their own audits. I also confirmed that any program receiving over $750,000 per year in federal awards, is required to conduct an audit.