Here's what is happening.
My 7 y/o son has missed 43-46 days of school so far this year. I live 5 counties over, or I'd go get him and take him myself. He has a speech problem, I managed to get him into and take him to speech all summer long 2 summers ago, last year was wasted trying to get his insurance to cover it- i fought with them all summer, he did NOT get speech therapy.
I spent all last year trying to get him into speech and spec ed at school. It was delayed b/c his mother kept rescheduling and missing the meetings. They finally decided to just deal with me. Now, he is in speech at school, but he misses too much school. His mother has been to one conference this year (We have had at least 8 conferences this year). I have the minutes from the meetings showing who was in attendence at the meeting.
Now, since he was 2 years old, I have been fighting for him. The first time we brought up attendence, he was in pre-K and missed 60+ days (if i remember correctly) and almost lost his Lottery funded slot, The only reason he didn't was b/c i stayed so involved with them. But it is not required by law that he go to pre-K, so leagaly- it didn't matter if he went or not. There went $5,500 for the lawyer plus other costs. Now attendence matters, and I have something that shows a pattern. 26 days missed last year, 40+ days missed this year.
I don't know what to do... I'll write more later, but it's coming down to money.
I got the courts paid, I'll only owe the lawyer another $1,000.00 - he's finally capping his fee for me after 3 years, lol. But all my witnesses, which i need are backing out. his teachers, the speech therapist, the sexual abuse therapist, I basically have a great case, with expert witnesses already having seen him. I have no way to finance this to get the outcome i need i'm afraid... The courts are weighted in the woman keeping the child where she lives. If I don't win now, I won't be able to afford to get back to where i am now.
My 7 y/o son has missed 43-46 days of school so far this year. I live 5 counties over, or I'd go get him and take him myself. He has a speech problem, I managed to get him into and take him to speech all summer long 2 summers ago, last year was wasted trying to get his insurance to cover it- i fought with them all summer, he did NOT get speech therapy.
I spent all last year trying to get him into speech and spec ed at school. It was delayed b/c his mother kept rescheduling and missing the meetings. They finally decided to just deal with me. Now, he is in speech at school, but he misses too much school. His mother has been to one conference this year (We have had at least 8 conferences this year). I have the minutes from the meetings showing who was in attendence at the meeting.
Now, since he was 2 years old, I have been fighting for him. The first time we brought up attendence, he was in pre-K and missed 60+ days (if i remember correctly) and almost lost his Lottery funded slot, The only reason he didn't was b/c i stayed so involved with them. But it is not required by law that he go to pre-K, so leagaly- it didn't matter if he went or not. There went $5,500 for the lawyer plus other costs. Now attendence matters, and I have something that shows a pattern. 26 days missed last year, 40+ days missed this year.
I don't know what to do... I'll write more later, but it's coming down to money.
I got the courts paid, I'll only owe the lawyer another $1,000.00 - he's finally capping his fee for me after 3 years, lol. But all my witnesses, which i need are backing out. his teachers, the speech therapist, the sexual abuse therapist, I basically have a great case, with expert witnesses already having seen him. I have no way to finance this to get the outcome i need i'm afraid... The courts are weighted in the woman keeping the child where she lives. If I don't win now, I won't be able to afford to get back to where i am now.
