{"id":6400,"date":"2012-02-02T11:39:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T16:29:51","slug":"adverse-consequences-of-not-knowing-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/adverse-consequences-of-not-knowing-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Adverse Consequences of NOT Knowing the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Adverse%20Consequences%20of%20NOT%20Knowing%20the%20Law\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>The results of an independent evaluation show that our son had dyslexia and dysgraphia.\u00a0 We asked the district to evaluate our son as well, and they refused.\u00a0 We left the district for a private placement, <strong>never<\/strong> having an evaluation done.\u00a0 <strong>Is there no law<\/strong> a district must follow about an outside, independent evaluation? I guess we will go to due process now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to me that you do not know the law.\u00a0 Rather than rely on either an attorney or lay advocate to know the law for you, it is essential to get up and running yourself.\u00a0 <strong>You need to learn what IDEA says about various issues\u00a0 &#8211; especially private unilateral placements<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing the law and going into a due process hearing will have very adverse consequences for you and perhaps for your child.<\/p>\n<p>The law is clear regarding private evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>The school must &#8220;consider&#8221; the eval, but nothing more.\u00a0 The district is not required to accept the evaluation and provide an IEP.\u00a0<!--more--> Nor is the district required to dispute the private evaluation by doing their own eval.<\/p>\n<p>You will find a discussion of this in the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/idea\/comment\/46688-46713.reg.501-520.procedures.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Commentary<\/span><\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 There have been cases dealing with this issue, but the rulings vary somewhat from court to court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/idea\/comment\/46688-46713.reg.501-520.procedures.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/idea\/comment\/46688-46713.reg.501-520.procedures.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/test.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Evaluations<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/test.iee.steedman.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">IEEs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">10 Day Business Letter<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you know the requirements for writing the &#8220;10 business day letter&#8221; prior to your child&#8217;s removal from public school and placement into private school?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>10 BUSINESS DAYS before removing the child from the public school, the parent must give the school WRITTEN NOTICE of \u201ctheir intent to enroll the child in a private school at public expense.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If parents do not take these steps, they may lose their right to reimbursement for an appropriate private placement \u2013 even if the public school placement was inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/dp.10day.ltr.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Advice About 10 Day Notice Letters to the School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/dp.10day.ltr.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/dp.10day.ltr.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of an independent evaluation show that our son had dyslexia and dysgraphia.\u00a0 We asked the district to evaluate our son as well, and they refused.\u00a0 We left the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/adverse-consequences-of-not-knowing-the-law\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,122],"tags":[868,867,91],"class_list":["post-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-evaluations","category-placement","tag-10-day-notice-letter","tag-iees","tag-private-placement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}