essay on I have mentioned before that I am a second generation special education attorney. My late father represented children with special needs, and I mentored under and learned from him for many years before becoming a lawyer myself. My dad had a lot of favorite quotations from others, and more than a few of […]
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“We Noticed He Didn’t Meet Any of His Goals, so…”
As a parents’ special education attorney in Connecticut, I hear outrageous statements that parents are told by their school districts on an almost daily basis. But, sometimes, I am told something that passes the realm of outrageous, and crosses into ridiculous. Such statements mislead or misrepresent the school’s legal obligations, and always in a way […]