Posted by jane on 4/27/07

More | Report Post

we have a teenage son who is currently in fostercare
because he was truant to a few classes in school. he has a
developmental disability but the school would not recognize
his 504 plan. they put him on a PINS diversion. of course
part of the PINS conditions were to not get "in trouble" at
school. when he couldn't keep up with the school work he
was told he was lazy and unmotivated and written up. well,
once we was written up he was violated on the PINS
diversion and put on a PINS petition. same thing happened
again -- still cannot keep up with the school work due to
the developmental disability -- so he gets violated again
and put into fostercare. he did not go with a family
member, he was put directly into a residential childrens
home. we have been trying for the past 3 months to get him
back home. he has done well in the different school setting
because the classes are much smaller and it is slower
paced. the County has just decided they made a mistake in
placing our son at the residential setting but will not let
him come home. this has been a very frustrating 8 months
and his dad is very angry with the situation. the County
has decided to use dad's anger against him and has conveyed
to us there is nothing we can do to get our son returned to
us. they are willing to give him to a family member with
restricted access to his dad but we find this unacceptable.
our son's home visits, to this point, have been spent with
us at our home, with no incidents. our lawyer keeps going
along with the system rather than fighting any of this. our
son's law gaurdian seems to represent the County better
than our son. we want to fire both and hire new to see if
we can get better results. has anyone experienced something
similar? the bias against the dad is palpitable in the
courtroom. dad has no criminal record, he is not abusive,
he does not drink; yet we have heard rumors that this is
what is being said by County workers involved in the case.
what can we do???

Re: has anyone experienced something similar?, 5/03/07, by sny.

Family Law Chatboard

LATEST POSTS | BY TOPICS | SUBMIT A POST