if he has the emotional maturity of a 4-6 year old how the hell did his mom think high school was where he belonged? She was living in a fantasy world from the beginning.
From the beginning of his time at ECHO, I expressed my reservations about Brendan being placed in the public school system. I was told by ECHO that Brendan had to attend a public school because the Agency for Persons with Disabilities only covered day programs for clients who had graduated high school or turned 22. I was assured by the group home that they place all their clients in the public schools and that a crisis team was only ten minutes away. It took a few months for the school to complete testing and for the Individual Education Program (IEP) meeting to occur.
I wrote, “See post #30 for more info.”
His parents didn’t send him to school. They put him in an institution.
The insurance company refused to continue paying, so the state took his case.
The state put him in a group home, and the group home insisted on putting him in school.