I am autistic as well, and I'd like to say good job to you :) when I was diagnosed I thought, all these experts and teachers would be full of understanding and patience, and that I'd finally get some things accomplished. But man, the things I've seen... My parents didn't believe me at first, but when they did, their protests to the organization was never listened to. Eventually we just left, did homeschooling. It means so much, that our parents/guardians will hear us. So good job :)

Yup, me too. I fought for everything at my autistic son’s IEP (individualized education plan) meeting every year. Some years there were real idiots running the show, but thankfully they were few and far between. I did manage to get someone fired for their behavior towards my son, hopefully saving someone else’s child and parents the hell that my husband and I went through. Thankfully my son is in a great program and making strides now. I’m very grateful.

TY for your comments, pusheen and Dr. Cheri. My son was on home tutoring on and off for years.

Dr. Cheri Hayes. My sons special ed class had friday swims at the pool for physical and social therapy. One day the principal walks in my sons room and tells the teacher that the pool program will be discontinued due to budget cuts. She explained "The pool time is donated by the city, the TA's are paid for whether they are here or at the pool and and the buses used to transport the kids there (less than 10 miles away) spend maybe a gallon of diesel a month to transport the kids there and back. I was standing there as she was defending it and I turned to the principal and handed him $5.."there" I said "That takes care of next months diesel costs." He handed the money back to me and walked out of the room grumbling.....We kept the program.

Oh..I can believe it because I had the same problems with my autistic son and his school administrators. My son was getting tardies from his teachers in middle school because he was left to his own devices to get to and from class. Only his IEP states he was to have a TA at all times between his special ed classes and his regular classes and that a TA was supposed to be available to him in regular classrooms. Come to find out the admin ignored that part of my sons IEP. When I called and asked why..they said "budget cuts." I said "I don't care if you have to drag yourself out of your office and go down their personally to escort him to class, but my son's IEP is not going to be ignored because of budget cuts. Ask yourself this..what would cost you less...making sure my son gets to class on time or having my lawyer call you about the next phase of this game?" Suddenly they found room in the budget!

As a substitute myself, the teacher's notes NEVER tell us about who has accommodations or modifications to their learning plans. That said, these stories NEVER should have happened anyway! I'm working toward my Special Education degree to advocate for all special needs students, like me, my brother, and my daughter, all of us Autistic!

this was 50 years ago - and I remember it to this day

Abusing kids planet!

keep in mind i am now 36 years old so it was quite a long time ago though he is still working there to this day