User:Enigmachs

In July of 2008, we were told by the school nurse, Ms. Kowel, and the 9th grade principle, Ms.. Dunmore, that all blood checks for my 14 year old Type 1 diabetic son must be done in the nurses office because of O.S.H.A. blood borne pathogen laws and that since he must check before a shot, he can give himself that shot right in the nurses office or eat some carbohydrates if he is low.. This is argued by me because he may pass out because of a low blood sugar on the way to the office, if that’s why he is going there, or even from a high sugar count. After a heated debate where these points are repeated and repeated by me, the nurse makes three suggestions. 1) A student can walk with him to the office. 2) The nurse can be summoned to his classroom to assist him or 3) she will go to his classroom and assist him. My son rejects the first option as is his right to do so for whatever reason he feels to, as do I. I picture a student grabbing hold of my son passing out and tumbling down a flight of stairs with him or worse, not grabbing onto him as the student hasn't a clue what the symptoms are right before coma. I reject the second one, as it would reveal to entire classrooms of kids that my son has a medical condition. The third betrays medical confidentiality. We are forced, in order for my son to go to school, to accept the proposal of his going to the nurses office for blood checks, as per the O.S.H.A. blood borne pathogen rules dictate*.according to the nurse and 9th grade principal that is..

In December, my son goes to the nurses office and has a blood sugar of 48. This number is well into the pass out from low blood sugar range. He went there unassisted. This is a very large school of 3000 or so students and the nurses office is down in a corner of the school. The school has 3 levels and lots of flights of stairs.

I mention, because I am livid at this predicted episode, that this has happened to my son to a few people whom I know. One of them says O.S.H.A. is for employees, not students. So I look it up. NOT ONLY is O.S.H.A. specifically just for employees and not for students, there is also a caveat in the O.S.H.A. law that states, "the self testing and medicating by an individual is allowed", and then gives DIABETICS AS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT CAVEAT EXCLUSION to their law.

I forward this information to the school and demand an end to my sons trotting off to the nurse’s office for blood glucose checks. I site the blood glucose level of 48 as an example of what I had warned them about and how it would be a danger to my son should something like that happen again.

The response from the school is that, "yes, the O.S.H.A. rule allows for self testing, but he may not test in any other place than in the nurses office because of the N.J. Dept. of Education guidelines which state that he may not test in any other place but in the nurse’s office.

First off, guidelines are just that, a guideline, and DO NOT HAVE TO BE FOLLOWED. Secondly, they lied once and i am wary now, so i look it up. The GUIDELINE SAYS JUST THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT DOES. I am not surprised. It states,” a student certified by their physician as capable and knowledgeable in conducting their own blood glucose testing SHOULD DO SO RIGHT IN THE CLASSROOM.” That is from the N.J.Dept of Education Task Force on Diabetes in the Classroom, it is from 1999. That is about 10 years after the current school policy mandate on diabetics was developed. Yes, there policy is 20 years old and pre-dates ADA ,IDEA and several additions to them and the Civil Rights Act.

This certification of his ability to check and administer insulin to himself is already on file and a part of my sons’ medical plan. It is on file because he is under the N.J. law known as the ASTHMA LAW, which includes “OTHER LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES CERTIFIED BY A PHYSICIAN” (this law can be found at the end of this letter). He is one of those others, and he is certified by his physician to check his sugar levels and administer his own insulin. Without delay and without supervision is contained is his DR's.. letter to the school. This medical plan, the one they lied about and forced us into, is signed by the school nurse, my sons Dr. and my son’s mother. This Asthma Law he is signed into allows for the student to PREVENT or respond to emergency situations in his/her medical condition. The Asthmatics carry inhalers that they use when they need to and wherever they need to. They also have EPI pens, which is a needle delivery system (just as my sons diabetic system is. He uses a dial pen) with a DEA regulated drug in it, as is the contents in the inhalers they carry a DEA regulated drug.

The school says he may check himself in the classroom.

But....he must go to the nurse for shots, and they say he can only have ONE SHOT A DAY!!!!

The reason he must go to the nurse, according to the school is because......... the ASTHMA LAW ONLY PERTAINS TO ASTHMATICS, not diabetics and my son is not covered by that law, although this is at least the 4th year the school has signed documents that put him under that law.

I point out the, “other life threatening illnesses” part of that law.. He is covered and it is signed off on by a school representative (the nurse Ms. Kowal). Along with the fact that the signing of that paper by us includes relieving the school of all liability should my son do his medicine incorrectly. Hardly an issue since he is in his 11th year as a Type 1 diabetic and has taken sole care of himself for the past 4 years. That equals about 10,000 blood checks and 9,000 shots that he has done by himself without adverse incident.

The school responds by pointing out that an overdose from insulin is far worse than an Asthmatics overdose from an EPI pen or inhaler and they can not allow my son to do his own medical treatment because of that ‘FACT’. (once again, i am skeptical)

I look up the treatment for an EPI pen/inhaler overdose. It states, ‘get them to an emergency room and call poison control”.

I look up treatment for an insulin overdose. It states, ”give them some food or carbohydrate drink”. HMMMM....another lie??? from the administration of a school? from the example setters to our children?? a LIE??? f n a right another lie...and there are more to come too..

By the way, a diabetic knows when they are going low and carry carbohydrates to counter that episode. What does an Asthmatic carry to counter their overdose?? A poison control phone number?

I forward this information to the school, who come back to me with,” Your sons medical plan conforms with the current state of the laws of New Jersey and fit his medical needs”, except according to his Drs. Letters to the school, a very much more qualified person to decide what's in the patients best interest than a school lawyer or administrator on this subject, it does NOT fit his medical needs. It does not come close fitting his medical needs.. The Drs. orders to the school are that my son should test wherever and whenever he feels a need to and before lunch, and if necessary give himself the appropriate shot WITHOUT DELAY AND NO SUPERVISION IS NECESSARY.Now i don't know what the schools idea of without delay is, but the given connotation is RIGHT NOW!

The school won’t budge and state that my son will continue to come to the nurse’s office for his shots, but he may test himself in the classroom. Further more, failure to comply will result in disciplinary action being taken against him. I asked, no less than 6 times over a 45 day period, for this law, this state of the laws of New Jersey, to be supplied to me.. BY LAW THEY HAD 10 DAYS TO DO SO.

At our final meeting with the principal, he said he didn’t know I was requesting the law (which bound my son to their unlawful medical plan), which was another lie by the administration, since several of the 6 emails and calls were directly to him, plus a hand written letter. Then the school lawyer, schwartz, simon, edelstien & kessler sent me an 80+ page guide book, not a law. As a matter of fact, he sent it to me 5 different times by a variety of mailing methods and he probably charged the school every time his office did so.

By this time, a new medical plan was submitted by us, since the one on file was based on lies, laws that don’t exist and ‘guidelines’ that say just the opposite of what we were told by them. I was gave it directly to the school nurse, who along with the students parents, the student and the students Dr.., are responsible for making up the medical plan. This too is a law.. This law says NOTHING about the school administrators getting a say in it, yet that is who the nurse sent the plan to. It was never seen again nor commented upon by the administration despite repeated requests for its signing.

They are now in full CYA mode..

They know that their policy is decades old and has ignored every law that pertains to disabled students that has come out since the late 1980’s. That would be the Americans with Disabilities Act mainly, but several other laws and court decisions also would have mandated the Board of Education make some changes throughout the years, but they didn't. I called high school after high school and 95% of them have kids coming to office not only for blood checks and insulin, but they keep the emergency epi pens there too!!!

As a confirmation of this, when I called into the 1-800-Child Abuse hot line about the 11 child abuse laws the school was breaking (also at the end of this letter), it took not the mandated 24 hours for them to get back to me, but 4 days. Four days of meetings with supervisors and lawyers. The final consensus???? What the school was doing didn’t quite meet the threshold of child abuse ( wait this gets good). This was phoned in to me on a phone number that I have called day and night 24-7 without anyone ever picking it up. I wonder, since ALL conversations are recorded, if this phone was one that DOES NOT record. But if what they were saying was true, why was the final sentence,” and it would open up too many schools to liability”.. How would there be liability if there was nothing wrong being done? With this question in mind ( this is where it gets better), I called the same number I first called to report child abuse, except this time, in every sentence that the school would have been mentioned as the perpetrator; I inserted my own name as the abuser. The dad. Doing what the school was actually doing. Two DYFS employees were at my door before 10A.M. the next morning to investigate me for “child abuse” and i hadn't called it in until about 1a.m.. I guess there are 2 different parameters they go by; one for parents, the other for school officials who ‘know’ people. WAIT, IT GETS EVEN BETTER!

WHEN A NEW INVESTIGATION BY INSTITUTIONAL DYFS AGAINST THE NURSE, Ms. KOWAL, FOR REFUSING TO ALLOW MY SON TO GIVE HIMSELF A SHOT WHEN HE WALKED INTO HER OFFICE WITH A 298 GLUCOSE COUNT IS ‘COMPLETED’ AND SHE IS EXONERATED. THE NURSE DECIDES TO GIVE HIM WATER INSTEAD OF ALLOWING HIM TO MEDICATE HIMSELF AS PER HEALTH PLAN, BECAUSE, “THAT SEEMS TO HELP MY OTHER DIABETICS” ACCORDING TO HER. THIS IS NOWHERE IN HIS MEDICAL PLAN! I DID BOTHER TO LOOK UP THE 'WATER TREATMENT', LIKE EVERY OTHER LIE I HAVE THROWN AT ME BY THEM, I FIND THAT TEA WAS TESTED ON TYPE 2 DIABETIC RATS AND SEEMED TO LOWER THEIR BLOOD SUGARS A LITTLE BIT.. MY KID IS NOT A LAB RAT FOR THE NURSE TO TEST OUT THEORY ON AND HE IS NOT A TYPE 2 DIABETIC, WHICH IS TREATED IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT WAY THAN TYPE 1.

HIS BLOOD SUGAR CLIMBED TO 490 AS SHE SAT WITH HER WATER THERAPY AND REFUSED HIS REPEATED REQUESTS TO GIVE HIM SELF A SHOT. DIABETICS CAN COMA IN THAT GLUCOSE AREA.

THIS WAS 'INVESTIGATED' AND CASE CLOSED WITHOUT THE INVESTIGATOR EVER TALKING TO ME.

HE SAID HE LEFT MESSAGES ON MY VOICE MAIL, WHICH I WOULD HAVE BELIEVED HE MAY HAVE DONE...................... EXCEPT I DON’T HAVE VOICE MAIL AS A FEATURE ON MY PHONE, AND YES, HE DID HAVE THE CORRECT PHONE NUMBER.

THE NURSE DID THIS TO MY SON AFTER GOING TO THE PRINCIPALS OFFICE AND COMING BACK TO HER OFFICE.

SHE FLAT OUT REFUSED TO ALLOW HIM AN INSULIN SHOT AND CONTINUED WITH THE NON-PRESCRIBED AND USELESS WATER BOARDING. I WAS ANGERED BEYOND WORDS BY THIS PURPOSEFUL ACT OF MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL CHILD ABUSE BEING COMMITTED BY A SCHOOL NURSE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF CREATING A SITUATION WHERE MY SONS DR. COULD BE CALLED BY THE SCHOOL..

SHE CREATED AN EMERGENCY SITUATION SO THE EMERGENCY NUMBER COULD BE CALLED. NOT MY NUMBER. NOT MY WIFE'S NUMBER, BUT THE DRS. NUMBER. WHY?? SO THEY COULD REQUEST A LETTER FROM HIM STATING THAT MY SON ONLY NEEDS 1 SHOT PER DAY BEFORE LUNCH AND NO OTHERS, REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT THERE IS A CHART IN HIS MEDICAL PLAN OUTLINING THE AMOUNT OF INSULIN TO BE INJECTED PER GLUCOSE COUNT ABOVE 100 AND THAT HE SHOULD,’CHECK HIMSELF WHENEVER HE FEELS A NEED THAT HE SHOULD DO SO, ALONG WITH BEFORE EXERCISE AND AFTER EXERCISE AND BEFORE EATING’.

THE DR. SENT A LETTER THAT THE COMMON PRACTICE IS TO ONLY NEED ONE SHOT AT LUNCH. MY SONS NAME WAS NOT ON THAT LETTER BUT IT IS SPECIFICALLY ON THE OTHER LETTERS FROM THE DR. THAT SAID, ‘IMMEDIATELY AND WITHOUT DELAY’. THE LETTERS THAT HAVE IGNORED THE MEDICAL ADVICE OF. THIS WATER TREATMENT AND DENIAL OF INSULIN WAS TO COVER THE SCHOOLS CONTENTION THAT MY SONS MEDICAL NEEDS ARE BEING COVERED AS PER HIS HEALTH PLAN.

THE REPEATEDLY LIED ABOUT, CONCOCTED THROUGH DECEIT AND MISINFORMATION MEDICAL PLAN WE WERE FORCED TO SIGN OVER OUR STRENUOUS OBJECTIONS.

I WENT TO SEE MY SONS DR. ABOUT THE LETTER HE SENT THEM. HE HAD ‘SUDDENLY’ CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT EVERYTHING HE HAD SENT THE SCHOOL REGARDING THE SELF ADMINISTRATION BY MY SON OF HIS MEDICAL NEEDS. ‘SUDDENLY’ AFTER TALKING TO THE SCHOOL HE HAD A CHANGE OF MIND THAT HAD BEEN HIS OPINION OF DIABETIC DISEASE CONTROL FOR YEARS. HIS REASON, AS STATED TO ME WAS, ‘I GOT OLDER’. MY RESPONSE TO HIM*.YOU GOT OLDER A MERE 5 WEEKS AFTER SPECIFICALLY CERTIFYING MY SONS CAPABILITIES TO HANDLE HIS OWN MEDICAL NEEDS. I FIND IT AMAZING THAT THIS SUDDEN ONSET OF AGE COINCIDED WITH THE CALL FROM THE SCHOOL. THIS DR POST, HEAD OF ENDO AT COOPER HOSPITAL, HAS SIGNED OFF ON PROBABLY HUNDREDS OF SELF MEDICATION FORMS. FOR MY SON, HE HAS BEEN DOING SO FOR YEARS. I WONDER IF THIS ALL NEW IMPORTANT,’ I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT’ HAS BEEN PASSED ALONG TO ALL HIS SCHOOL AGE PATIENTS HE HAD PREVIOUSLY CERTIFIED AS SELF COMPETENT IN THE HANDLING OF THEIR DIABETES? IF NOT, THEN IT IS A SPECIFIC CHANGE FOR A SPECIFIC KID AND THE RESULT OF A SPECIFIC SCHOOL CALLING HIM. BY THE WAY, HIS NEW IDEA OF A MEDICAL PLAN IS NOT WHAT THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION CONSIDERS TO BE APPROPRIATE TREATMENT FOR A TYPE 1 DIABETIC.

WHEN THE DR. SAID TO ME THAT HE DIDN’T THINK THAT I WAS DOING THIS CONFRONTATION WITH THE SCHOOL, 'WITH JUST MY SONS HEALTH AND EDUCATION IN MIND’ I ASKED HIM WHAT ELSE HE THOUGHT I WAS DOING IT FOR.. HE SAID THAT WASN’T FOR HIM TO SAY. I WONDER WHAT THE SCHOOL SAID TO HIM, OR HIS BOSS, OR SOMEONE ELSE OVER HIM. OR WHAT THEY ‘HAVE’ ON HIM THAT MADE HIM DO A 180* TURN AROUND ON HIS LIFE'S WORK.

THE ONLY THING I HAVE BEEN INTERESTED IN FROM THE BEGINNING IS MY SONS HEALTH AND EDUCATION. I HAVE OFFERED TO THE SCHOOL THAT I WOULD NOT SEEK ANY LAWSUITS AGAINST THEM AND SIGN A STATEMENT STATING SUCH, IF THEY WOULD ALLOW MY SON TO FOLLOW HIS DRS. ORDERS AND THE LAWFUL RIGHT TO SELF PRESERVATION AND THE BEST EDUCATIONAL LEVEL HE CAN ATTAIN THAT EVERY HUMAN IN THIS COUNTRY IS BORN WITH AND THE LAW DICTATES

EDUCATIONALLY, MY SON HAS SUFFERED AT THE SCHOOLS POLICY OF CHILD ABUSE.

IN DECEMBER HE CAME HOME WITH HIS INTERIM REPORT CARD. HE HAD AN 'F' IN ITALIAN AND A 'D' IN ALGEBRA. I HAD HIM IGNORE THE ILLEGAL SCHOOL POLICY AND TEST AND MEDICATE HIMSELF IN THE CLASSROOM. HE BROUGHT THE 'F' TO AN 83 AND THE 'D' TO AN 84 IN JUST A HALF MARKING PERIOD. HE WENT UP A TOTAL OF 38 GRADE POINTS FROM THE PREVIOUS MARKING PERIOD. HE WENT UP IN EVERY SUBJECT EXCEPT HEALTH.

AFTER BEING INTIMIDATED BY THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION THAT A CONTINUANCE OF HIS SELF MEDICATING IN THE CLASSROOM WOULD RESULT IN DETENTION AND SUSPENSION, AND BECAUSE HE DIDN’T WANT TO LOSE HIS ELIGIBILITY FOR BASEBALL (HE IS THE STARTING SECOND BASEMAN ON THE 2 TIME NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ARSENAL BLUE TEAM) AT CHERRY HILL WEST, WHERE HE WILL BE THE STARTING VARSITY AS A SOPHOMORE.

HE DECIDED TO COMPLY WITH THEIR DEMANDS OF FOLLOWING THE DEBUNKED MEDICAL PLAN. THE NEXT MARKING PERIOD WHILE FOLLOWING THE MEDICAL PLAN HE WENT DOWN 33 GRADE POINTS BECAUSE OF MISSED CLASS TIME AND HIGH, UNTREATED BLOOD SUGARS DURING CLASS TIME, WHICH AFFECT HIS CONCENTRATION AND BEHAVIOR IN CLASS. A MALADY THAT IS EASILY CORRECTABLE WITH A SHOT TAKEN AT HIS DESK.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE NEW JERSEY LAWMAKERS HAVE PASSED A BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW HIM TO DO JUST THAT. IT PASSED 70-3 AND IS ON THE GOVERNORS DESK AWAITING HIS SIGNATURE. UNFORTUNATELY IT WON'T GO INTO EFFECT UNTIL 120 DAYS AFTER THE GOV SIGNS IT.

THIS LAW CAME ABOUT BECAUSE SO MANY SCHOOLS WERE NOT ADHERING TO THE LAWS ON THE BOOKS, BECAUSE THEY WERE SO SCATTERED ABOUT IN VARIOUS LAWS AS TO MAKE THEM A PATCHWORK TO FOLLOW.

THIS SCHOOL THOUGH, CHERRY HILL WEST, NEVER LOOKED FOR A REASON TO GIVE MY SON A FAIR CHANCE AT A HEALTHY LIFE OR EDUCATION, BUT RATHER SEARCHED EVERY AVENUE THEY COULD TO DENY HIM HIS CIVIL RIGHTS, GOD GIVEN RIGHTS AND EQUAL EDUCATION THAT THE LAW DEMANDS THEY DO, "WITHIN ALL REASONABLE MEANS". WHAT IS UNREASONABLE ABOUT A SIMPLE SHOT AT A DESK TO ACHIEVE THIS END?

I wondered why an administration would do this to a kid. Then I was told about the solitary confinement rooms they were sticking Autistic into, complete with padded walls, strap down restraints and a single light bulb above. The parents of the Autistic kids were never told about these rooms. A woman who had an Autistic child walked by one that was open and took some cell phone pictures of it, the only thing she couldn’t capture was the stale smell of urine that permeated it. The administration at first said,” you know we wouldn’t do anything that’s bad for our students”. Then they said the room were never used, then that they were used only once, then that they were used more than once when evidence came out that they were lying about its usage. Then a second room was found..

Then I found out about the new auditorium at west. It was built with no access for disabled students to the stage. They would have to sit in the audience area whenever their class was up on stage. After an office of civil rights law suit (and why it had to come to a lawsuit when the law specifically says access must be available in new construction), a lift was put in for wheel chair bound students (at a retro fit cost that I was told was in the $3,000,000 range) so they could join their classmates on stage. Last I heard, the school stuck to the Office of Civil Rights finding that they had to build the lift*they just haven’t used it yet. I guess that wasn’t specifically spelled out, that they actually HAD to use it for the wheel chaired student. I guess that’s their collective mind set, we are right, you are wrong and we have the power and pull to prove it.

These are not people who can be dealt with in a civil and kinder and gentler way. They lie and they do what they want because they have the power to do what they want without consequences for their abominable actions against the disabled students in their charge. The students that we trust them with because they are educators and have our kids best interest deep down in their hearts. What hearts?

As stated before, there are specific child abuse laws the administration continues to break on a daily bases concerning my son. They will follow at the end of this letter.

I went to Cherry Hill police department to file charges against the school administrators for child abuse, specifically against, Campbell, Gallagher and Meloche, and I was told I could NOT do so. The detectives did not even want to look at the folder of evidence I brought with me once they heard it was against the school administration. In refusing my request, the police ignored this law (see the last sentence):

RULE 3:2. CONTENTS OF COMPLAINT, ARREST WARRANT AND SUMMONS

3:2-1. Contents of Complaint; Forwarding of Indictable Complaints to Prosecutor and Criminal Division Manager

(a) Complaint. The complaint shall be a written statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged made on a form approved by the Administrative Director of the Courts. All complaints except complaints for traffic offenses, as defined in R. 7:2-1 where made on Uniform Traffic Tickets and complaints for non-indictable offenses made on the Special Form of Complaint and Summons, shall be by certification or on oath before a judge or other person authorized by N.J.S.A. 2B:12-21 to take complaints.. The clerk or deputy clerk, municipal court administrator or deputy court administrator shall accept for filing any complaint made by any person.

The administration has banned me from school grounds and buildings. They did so even though the parameters of their right to do so were never crossed by me. They can ban me for causing an audible disturbance at the school and refusing to leave when asked. Neither of those things has ever happened. They did still allow me to come to the school in emergency situations, as long as I stopped by the main office and told them why I was there.

I went and dropped off blood meter testing strips for my son just after school class times had ended, along with drinks for him since he was going to an away baseball game and had run out of test strips while at school. I dropped a stapled collection of the things the school administration had been doing to my son with their lies and threats on the bench in the foyer of the school as I entered. The administration, not liking the fact that their lying and child abuse had been brought to light, made a criminal complaint of trespassing against me.

It seems the police have no problem working for them, since I didn’t break any law in my actions nor did I break the illegal barring of me from the school, having gone there for an emergency situation and telling the secretary that my son needed his test strips before he left for the game and to please call him down to pick them up, which she did.

A second charge was levied against me by Joe Meloche for putting a document in his mailbox outlining the schools abuse of my son and their constant lying about laws etc. except I didn’t put it in his mailbox, I put it in 10 copies either in peoples doors or on their steps, as that is all the copies I had enough money to make. (My dad was a mailman, i know it is illegal to put things in peoples mailboxes other than U.S.MAIL).. A copy was sent to him via email already. I wouldn’t waste a good hard copy by putting it his mailbox. Actually, the charge is again, trespassing. I think one of his neighbors put it in his mailbox to let him know it was going around. I think freedom of speech covers this, especially when there are no lies in the document and even if I had put it in his mail box, which I am certain I did not, there is no restraining order against me that compels me to stay away from his house.

A third charge was made after I called the nurse on the evening of her water boarding of my son. I called her after school hours as I did not find out about the incident until after school had closed. The charges say I called at an hour of the day during which time alarm would be caused by my call. Whatever time the nurse decides to pick up her voice mails is not within my power of control and I do not know if she heard it when she came to work, or if she accessed her voice mail from home. THEY ARE USING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW FOR THIS CHARGE!!

I didn’t threaten her, I told her exactly what I was going to, legally do, as it is my right to do, and then did so. I was not looking for a result from her. She had already done what she had done when she worked not in the patients favor, but at and for the administrations behest, a direct contradiction of the school nurse guidelines. She had been sent these guidelines previously by me, along with guidelines noting that doing what you are told by the administration, rather than what’s in the best interest of the student/patient is not a defense for doing so.

The action had already taken place and I was responding to that action, not threatening that any similar action would result in my following up with legal complaints, but that this specific action was going to be followed up with such complaints. Is it illegal to tell someone that you are filling legal charges against them, or a law suit against them for their irresponsible and/or illegal actions? Can they only find out from official sources when a subpoena is issued to them in the mail?

So now I have 3 charges against me, all during a time in which a Federal Department of Education Office of Civil Rights lawsuit was pending against the school and my son has several disciplinary actions and threats against him while he is the subject and I am the advocate of that lawsuit on my minor sons behalf. As such, and this is a direct quote from the Office of Civil rights letter to the school and myself:

Prohibition Against Intimidation or Retaliation

An institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education may not intimidate, threaten, coerce, or retaliate against anyone who ASSERTS a right protected by the civil rights laws that OCR enforces, or who cooperates in an investigation. Anyone who believes that he or she has been intimidated or retaliated against should file a complaint with OCR.

I am filing another complaint with the OCR and I have 180 days in which to do so. Or is saying that considered to be with the intent to cause alarm? Actually, I think it just a statement of fact.

Did I send emails to my sons guidance counselor, his teachers and his coaches with all the information I knew? Yes. Why? Because they always say to let the teachers etc know what is going on in the student’s life that may affect his class work. I think the fact that the administrators lied every step of the way, refused to allow him his rights to a healthy life and equal education and how he, my son, must be feeling about the authority figures of his school, and rightfully so, would effect his classroom behavior and/or attitude towards those in authority. I offered, from almost the very beginning, to delete any teachers email address that did not want to receive emails from me concerning these circumstances surrounding my son. A Mr. Herman asked to be taken off and I did so. My last mail to him only acknowledged that I had removed him from the list..

Upon a second offering of the same deletion from the email list, a Ms.. Powelson asked to keep the emails to specific class items. Which I did, until my son was charged by her for acting up in class and she did not attend the meeting with Meloche, Gallagher myself and my son to find out whether she had asked him to test his blood sugar, as I had given all his teachers permission to do in an earlier email, in order to make sure it wasn’t a disability related action on his part. The law at that time was the school had to prove it was not disability related. The school has since made a change in that policy without a public hearing. Don’t you just love closed door decisions? By the way, Ms. Powelson never answered me, but neither did the school administration who said they would talk to her privately without my being allowed to be there when they did.

I have every bit of paper and email sent both to and from the school and any other agency noted confirming everything in the content of this letter, and more.

Just one or two more items. There are at least 4 kids in my sons school who use insulin pumps. These pumps administer insulin 24-7 and little beeps go off if your blood sugar goes up and then the meter adjusts to a new amount of insulin flow. Does the nurse follow these kids around all day during school? or are they getting to medicate unsupervised while my son MUST LEAVE CLASS FOR A SHOT. And as far as his having to have a nurse present AS THEY DEMAND....well, not at practice, not in detention and not on school trips either. HOW VERY SELECTIVE OF THEM. The weekly list of shots and blood counts from pre lunch time we are supposed to get from the nurse...NEVER HAPPENED;NOT EVEN ONCE! The training of people who would be in contact with my son on a regular basis (including his bus driver) for spotting the onsets of high and low blood sugars..NEVER HAPPENED.