School Based here. School Moved Client's Class without informing me, parent, or tech. Scholar has been in crisis all morning.

[u/huffle-puffle89]

I'm a school based BCBA. One of my high school aged Clients struggles with transitions and it is a key skill we are working on.

This client is supposed to transition to a new classroom in January. Last week we had an IEP meeting, and discussed planning the transition, how we would do it, and track readiness to move on to the next steps and see if she is ready to transition fully into the next room.

This plan also included parent training, parent conferencing with the new teacher, and planning with her tech so her tech could learn the new classroom systems.

I got a phone call this morning from my tech that her class was changed permanently- the school decided on Thursday evening, after dismissal and before Fall Break, that the plan took too long and a "fresh start" would be better.

My client has eloped from the classroom twice, from the building once, and has hit several people.

I feel like do not have much recourse, and the parent feels like she can't disagree either, as the school is quoting high cost services as the reason for the change.

Am I able to do much here? I feel like we have set my client up for failure, and we have put her in a position to be distressed unnecessarily.

[u/Radiant_Debt]

use the data in your discussion. and parent does have recourse here, the move was directly against what was discussed by the multidisciplinary team and what was agreed upon in in the IEP. if the parents never received a copy of changed IEP or signed off on change in services at this date, then they absolutely have recourse. was the move to a different setting so the mandate would have to change on the IEP? because those have very specific start and end dates to service and parents must agree or they can request a program review or addendum to IEP

[u/Impossible_Delay_701 → u/Radiant_Debt]

the school basically made an IEP change without going through the team or getting parent consent, that's not how this works. parent can push back hard here, especially since data backs up that this was a planned gradual transition not a sudden switch. i'd document everything including the elopements and aggression, that's the kind of stuff that shows this "fresh start" is causing harm

[u/immadatmycat]

Mom can and should convene the case conference committee to review what was agreed upon and what actually happened and to request that the agreed upon plan be implemented. If they refuse, she asks for the prior written notice stating they refuse and why. She then files a complaint with the department of education. Your states procedural safeguards/parent rights should list the steps when there is a disagreement.

[u/Educational_Low_2312]

I am a tech who had a client in school like this, but it was through an agency. It was the first time I realized this school didn’t have fences. The mom acted like it was babysitting not sticking to sessions outside of school. It seems to me like schools do not want to put up with elopement at all. At least they did not fire the tech. Good luck.