Please help with special ed issue

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My son was finally diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrom this summer. He is 15. It has taken several years finding a doctor that knew enough about AS to get the diagnosis. Now I can not seem to get the school on board. They want to do their own evaluation and send him to another doctor. They did 2 evaluations last year and came up with the diagnosis of emotionally disturbed and it is now on his school record regardless of the fact that I disagreed with them. My son is having behavior problems in two resource classes. English and Algebra. In English he called a black girl the N word and made a performance of sniffing his shoes, drooling on the desk and slurpping it back up. He thinks he is being funny. I understand what is going on with Algebra he had a subsitute the 1st six weeks of school and the old teacher came back. The teacher is getting the butt end of the "change". My son called him unmentionable names and the bridge is burned. He has other classes that he is doing excellent in without special ed modifications such as Biology and ROTC. He does none of the above things. On Thursday we had an ARD. We decided to take him out of Art and put him in a special behavior class for social skills. He shut down and ran away from school after they called him in and told him of the changes. All I want is for the school to acknowledge his AS and put modifications in place that will help him without to much change. I do not know what their agenda is and everytime I ask why they will not accept his diagnosis I get a pat answer. Please help if you can. I have another ARD on the 28th of November. This time I am coming armed with our family therapist who has helped in the past. I just do not understand why and what the school is trying to do by not accepting his diagnosis. I feel undermined. By the way this is in the state of Texas.

alot of school districts are unfair that how they are with people like me. the school need to be more knowledgeable about stuff like this.

It sounds as if you may have to enlist some legal help with this issue. The only word some school boards understand is "lawyer."

What you are going through is something that seems to happen all too often: A student with particular needs is pigeonholed by a school doctor into some diagnosis for which the answer is medication. Unfortunately, schools like the easy solution of drugging the child or dismissing his real problem in favor of something they are comfortable with. That is your school's 'real' agenda.

You have my sympathies; good luck.

Well they can not put him on medication because he already is. He is also Bipolar.