Submitting our Exhibit binder today in Tenbrink vs. Alpine School District, Utah case 14-001, Honorable James Gerl, Independent Hearing Officer. 63 Exhibits, 700 pages. This is a due process hearing under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) which is the federal law that requires public schools to provide special education to students with qualifying disabilities where less restrictive means or accommodations fail to provide a child with a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), and give a student an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). In our case, Alpine School District, Utahs largest and fastest growing district, conducted shoddy, incomplete and invalid testing and evaluation to intentionally deny this incredibly intelligent child special education; they found the opposite of the clinical psychologist and MD Psychiatrist whose correctly done testing and evaluation show he has severe depression, anxiety (mostly caused by the school) and Aspergers. He needs a completely individual curriculum, a special education certified supervising teacher, massive changes in the way he has to be educated, or he utterly fails in school and regresses socially and psychologically. With the right individualized program, this 11 year old will earn a Bachelors degree by the time hes 16, maybe sooner. Without it, he fails nearly every class, even band! Alpine and the rest of Utahs schools have never been outed in public for this kind of abuse, which goes on all the time. Nobody can afford to take on the machine and their very good team of lawyers and paid experts. No other lawyers in Utah have been willing to take them on until now, no other parents have been willing to do it PUBLICLY, with full transparency until now. Alpine just hired TWO outside PhDs at $3 - 5,000 each, who have never seen this child, to testify at the hearing that hes just fine, doesnt have depression, anxiety or Aspergers, and doesnt need an IEP. Their lawyer must have as much time into this case as I do, well over 100 - 150 hours, at $300/hour. Do the math. Who can fight back against an entrenched, well-funded bureaucracy? Answer: Us. The Tenbrink family, Dr. Gary Thompson and his Early Life Child Psychology clinic and me.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:47:24 +0000
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