I e-mailed my son's school principal on August 9th 2018 requesting IEP assessment for my son. She has not said a word to me. My son's class room teacher told me that she needs to talk to the teacher from last year and my son needs to be evaluated by SSPT first. Is it true that school is supposed to get back to me within 60 calendar days?
Second question:
My son hit another student in after school. The program director said she is going to discuss with principal and let me know what kind of consequence my son is going to get. I am having an informal meeting with the program director today and I would like to record it. I actually would like to record every interaction with this after school director. Is this something that parents are allowed to do?
Once your child turns 18, and not conserved, he will hold his own educational rights. The school may then contact him and not you in regards to education and IEP matters. A full conseravatorship is not needed to assign educational rignts. There are forms online your son can sign to assign his educational rights over to you his parent if he is agreeable. But you may want a special education attorney to facilitate the signing of this form. They will conduct a brief interview to ensure this is what your son wants an that he understands what he is doing. You can then take this form to the school and they will continue to have you as the primary contact for his educational needs as you will again hold his educational rights. If your son is lower functioning and does not understand what he is agreeing to, you may want to consider contacting an attorney to find out about conservatorship. This can be done on a full or partial basis.