WHERE WERE THE RA’S WHEN THIS HAPPENED!
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED IF THEY DO THIER JOBS AS RA’S!

To move on will be very hard.. It took two years for my oldest daughter to recover from what happen to her. She still gets insecure every now and then. It is hard to see her in pain when she has a flashback. It is hard when her daddy and I watch her get nightmares or frustrated when she remember things.

It is not impossible but in time healing begins. Just hold on to hope… have faith that things will work out…

I will email you in private.

Clarification of child’s involvement as agreed on at manifestation determination meeting on October 10, 2007:
(Child) invited to play war game. (child) was part of the first floor group. Other group members captured a member of the basement group. (child) kept encouraging the victim to tell them what the basement team’s plan was, but victim did not respond. (child) states victim would not answer and kept laughing. (child) was being encouraged by other students to continue interrogating. (child) states he became frustrated when victim would not answer and laughed at him. (child) hit student on chest and stated “I quit”. (child) returned to dorm room to play video game.

Parents email to principal:

The counselor’s summary is in direct contradiction to the IEP which states that counseling will be provided for the first quarter not until 10/3/07 on a weekly basis for 30 minutes. I am now requesting a due process hearing with the hearing officer on an emergent basis. As well, I am requesting an appeal of the decision for expulsion. I will also be requesting that all documents you have be provided immediately to me for preparation. If all documentation is not provided immediately I will then retain an education attorney and have this all subpoenaed. Please respond by the close of business today as to your intentions. As well please begin including both of (child) parents in your emails regarding this situation. It was unacceptable to ignore the rights of his other mother to this information that was sent yesterday.

Daniel Dukes, Principal says:

This email serves as our confirmation of your request for a due process hearing meeting related to the outcome of (child) manifestation determination meeting on Wednesday, October 10, 2007. We will mail to you the information pertaining to this early next week.

I also will consider this email confirmation of your request to appeal the decision to expel (child). I will let you know my decision within 7 school days from today (Monday, October 22, 2007), according to MSSD school policy.

Parents email to Dr. Jankowski… remains unanswered:
Dr. Jankowski
Unfortunately I must give to you some bad news regarding the horrific abuse of the system by your staff at MSSD.
My son has become a victim of MSSD and in an effort to cover up their responsibility in the current “racial issue/ hate crime” incident at MSSD on 9/29/07. In fairness to all of the students involved, it must be said that MSSD failed to properly educate, supervise, and acknowledge the needs of each individual student. To make matters worse a counselor has falsified documents related to the provision of services to a student as stated in his IEP. As well, MSSD has clearly stated that they will not recognize the cognitive and social/emotional developmental delays of this student and only acknowledge his deafness because that is his “labeled disability”. I will be happy to provide you with all of the written documentation if you are interested in reviewing it. The principal, Daniel Dukes, went so far as to refuse to participate in voting on the outcome of the manifestation determination meeting. The child involved has failed 4 classes since the beginning of the year and as well, the residential director, Bo Acton, emailed this students parents claiming that he has suspicions that the older student was taking advantage of this student but could not act to protect him until he proved his suspicions. The child has currently decided he will kill himself because “his teachers and counselors and the principal say he is bad and don’t want him around”. To clarify his developmental level of thinking, he states that his friend (child) can have all of his toys except his football teddybear because he wants him to die with him. MSSD english teacher involved in the manifestation determination meeting stated that she was aware that the other students were telling this student that he should not be allowed at the school because he speaks and only “hearies speak and can’t be with the deaf kids”. The english teacher indicates that she told them to stop but did not feel it was her “Job” to let other teachers, residential staff or counselors know that this child was struggling and being ostracized. She clearly stated that if the child didn’t like it he should have told the counselor or other staff. Given his fragile emotional state, it was not acceptable to refuse to support this student who was new to the environment and did not even know the names of the residential staff in his dorm. If you would like to discuss these issues further please feel free to contact me. As the parent of this student it is my responsibility to share his side of the story and protect him from further abuse I will do this at any cost. My child should not have suffered in this way and MSSD should be apologizing, educating and supporting this child’s needs rather than playing the role of covering up their responsibility. If it is a mistake that they made they should admit it and fix it, if it is with malice that they have expelled this child and falsified documents I will insure that they are held accountable.

The anger has set in… The sadness is overwhelming… The media should be more careful… The adults should learn to be adults…

Thank you all for your support and realistic comments. Kbjensen06 I’m not sure how to reach out to you through email but will email MZ and if she would like to release my email to you that would be fine. If it wasn’t for fear of more attacks on the child, I would not care about privacy just that the truth be out there. My partner and I have done all possible to try to do the right things and trust… this is the youngest of 6 children we loved and raised… Never have I seen such rejection from any community as the one at MSSD. We made a terrible terrible mistake and this child suffers now… Mothers have a much difficult time getting through things when their mistake in putting a child somewhere results in that child being emotionally devastated… Move on?? is that even possible???

I really feel for you. I did the same thing for my oldest daughter we had to pull her out of one of residential school due to bullies by staff and kids. We moved on to another states and she is doing extremely well!

CM, He will need help and alot of love I know you heard this before but the most important thing is that he is being heard.

If you want to email me privately get it through this person. She and I have been in touch alot and I am here for you mother to mother…

Brian I am being careful….