Education for all handicapped law

can a civil law case have more than one

decision in a district court. ex: Timothy

v. Rochester School District

question re: underage drinking party

My mother in law lives down the street and will be out of town tomorrow. She is allowing her other son to have an after prom party where there will be alcohol (she is not providing the alcohol and he is taking the keys). My husband (we don't live with them) knows about the party and has volunteered to check on them periodically through the night. If something happens, would my husband and I be at risk of being liable?

leinage

i need information on indian leinage...my dads brother was full blooded cherokee and i wanna know how i can prove that so i can get college help

Power of Attorney - Dementia

my husband has POA for his mother who is elderly and has been diagnosed with Alheimers Dimentia. She is currently in a nursing home. There is a fued about the family home between him and his sister and we were notified yesterday by her attny that she got the mother to change the POA over to her. Is this legal? My husband was not notified that this was happening. And since my mother in law has dimentia which put her in the nursing home, doesn't that mean she is not able to make decisions for herself, hence why my husband has the POA to begin with. We think the Sister tricked her into changing the POA. Is this new POA legal? Can we get it reversed?

What are my rights?

I am attending a private University and I take classes online. I had signed by electronic signature a term of agreement form. I want to back out of the school because they keep giving me estimates of what the school will cost and will not give me the set stone amount. Can I legally back out even though I signed a legal bidding contract?

Child with Special Needs

Hi,

My daughter has special educational needs. She has short term memory and auditory processing problems. The school district has made accommodations for her, and has recently started to try and mainstream her. The affect is causing my daughter's stress level to reach a point that the stress has started to manifest itself physically. The school was informed, but did nothing about it.

Last week during the practice for a school play, the teacher running the play yelled at my daughter, and then publicly humiliated her. This incident caused my daughter to become physically ill, and she had to go to the doctor and was placed on medication to try and alleviate some of the symptoms. The doctor recommended that she be removed from the play. When we informed the school of this decision, they said that if she quits the play she will face ridicule from the students, and the faculty will also be unhappy.

I�m not sure what my options are, but I need to do something before my 10yr old daughter has a nervous breakdown.

Thanks for your guidance.

Discrimination

i have a doughter in first grade and they always send letters home saying no siblings on field trips or school parties. well i have another child so i can never go, but my child comes home telling me that other parents had brought their babies to the party, even the teacher brought her baby a few times, so i asked if i could go on the field trip, i offered to bring my own car pay full price, and help out with the kids if i could not go with the class. they told me no. my daughter comes home and says one of the little boys mom brought his little brother. so my question is, how they can tell me no i can not bring my child, but the other parents and the teacher can bring theirs. thats not right to me, and i want to know if i have a case and should i go to the school board about this?

Parents/Kindergartner referred to Attendance Review Board

My son suffers from asthma and many related illnesses. He is in Kindergarten this year and has missed an unusually large amount of school due to his illnesses. We have made great effort to communicate with his principal and teacher; providing dr's notes each time he has been seen & dr. requests to keep him home when considered necessary by his pediatrician. We have met (upon OUR request) with his principal on several occasions to convey our concerns & willingness to cooperate any way we can. We were reassured on mant occasions that they would work with us & that they would not report any issue to the School Board, as his poor attendance is strictly illness related. His teacher has reassured us that even though he has missed a great deal,he is very intelligent & is well within the parameters of growth & learning with the rest of his class; in fact, she has commented that he is one of her best students. Today I received a letter from the office of education demanding us (w/ our son) to attend a hearing regarding his poor attendance, and that if we do not attend, criminal complaints will be filed against us. I want to know whay my rights are and what recourse I have. This is MY child, not theirs - Please help!

In Local Parentis

I am a student at Columbia College Chicago. Recently, I was told that the school can prevent me from going on school related trips (I planning a research trip to Peru), because I will be under 21. They are citing In Local Parentis, which I know little about. I am honestly doubting that my school even has In Local Parentis, because after doing some researching it sounds like it is a thing of the past. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Florida Attendance Laws

I know of a woman who had children who were homeschooled but she failed to get their yearly reports into the school system due to financial and transportation issues. These children are are now 20 (in college) and 18 about to begin college. Can she be prosecuted for this although the problems occured in the past?

Violation of Privacy and Use of Intimidation

If I am a university student and graduate assistant do I have a right to privacy when it comes to relationship issues; can a professor from another department, who is friends with an ex of mine (this ex was also my supervisor) get me in trouble with department heads in my department through intimidation tactics? I feel as though many of my rights have been violated. Personal issues between me and an ex, my supervisor, are now departmental business? Also, isn't there a code of ethics on a professor from another department offering information about me that was given to him by my ex? This doesn't feel right. I feel very exposed, intimidated by the power of professors, and slandered. My ex told this professor that he was having problems with me. This ex had emotionally abused me in our relationship, and now I feel attacked. He used e-mail and phone message recording (of which I believe he fabricated). I had been upset that I found out that this ex had tried to court a friend of mine shortly after we broke up. I admit that I got upset; I had a lot of built up feelings from the emotional abuse that took place in the 11 months we dated. Also, a friend of his, who was also my supervisor, treated me with indignity and slander.

School expulsion

My 13-year-old (with perfect record, and knows better) took some pills from a kid at school. Long story short, the kid who brought them is being charged, but not the receivers, but all are suspended from school and pending expulsion. Her principle knows her and will advocate for her,but there is zero tolerance by school board policy. She faces expulsion, possible alternative school placement, or if they will let her return to school. She has a huge list of consequences she is doing at home and we have requested community service from the police for her to do. How can we legally advocate for her to be allowed to remain at school after her suspension??

School bus safety

My daughter was molested on the school bus. She is suffering emotionally and physically. Do I have the right to sue the school or the district?

School bus safety

My daughter was molested on a school bus. Do I have to allow the principal to speak to her?

Getting a declaration from out of state person

I have a lawsuit in California. I have a witness who lives in Washington. The matter to be declared to is something he would obviously have personal knowledge about. He was a student in California, and paid for a ''graduation check'' more than 1 full year before the date of his graduation, as was required at the time we graduated. I need him to verify this for me, and for the court. Anyway, what will be required for me to bring his declaration to court? Does he declare under the penalty of perjury of the state of California? of Washington? of the United States? which one, or all three?

School Liability

I was presented with a contract for a company offering a safe online network for kids stating that the role of the school was to verify a student's registration and the responsibility for keeping the student safe while in the network was that of the company. Is my school/district liable for any lawsuit if we are only part of the registration process? Registration is not mandatory but optional and the parents are aware by signing the contract as well.

Personal Property

If your son/daughter takes a cell phone to school and has it confiscated for using it in class. Can the school refuse to return it to the parent if they go to the school to pick it up? A local school passed a school policy stating the device would be confiscated for 30 days. Can they legally withold property from the parent if the parent bought it and pays the bill on it?

teacher reporting

In a previous question I asked if a teacher could be held liable for not reporting (ie underage drinking). What if I was employed at another source and I observed the incident. Can the school district hold me liable for some thing that happened when I was not in their employment(ie during the summer) and holding a summer job.

teacher responsibilites for reporting

what are my responsibilites as a teacher for reporting activities involving under age students outside of the school setting. Where I am in a setting not as a teacher, not even as an employee of the school district. Can I be held liable for not reporting.(i.e. under age drinking). I am not participating or condoning. Just there.

Missouri Law on Parental consent rights in school

There was a video put out by A&E called ''Meth's Deadly High'' rated TV14 that was shown to 12 and 13 year olds (one being my son) in school without parental consent. I saw this video and it was VERY explicit and INSTRUCTIONAL as to showing them how to make and shoot up methamphetamine. Was there a law broken by the school?