Journal article
A DILLER, A DOLLAR: SECTION 1983 DAMAGE CLAIMS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION LAWSUITS
Georgia Law Review, Vol.36, pp.465-1149
01 Jan 2002
Abstract
A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar! What makes you come so soon? You used to come at ten o'clock, But now you come at noon.** n**The Real Mother Goose 94 (Scholastic N.Y. 1994) (1916). This traditional children's rhyme seems apropos to open a discussion of the often confusing and complex interaction of statutory remedial schemes protecting schoolchildren's rights, including the elaborate and sometimes lengthy IDEA review process (a diller), and the appropriateness of damages and other relief (a dollar). I. Introduction Andrew's parents were unhappy with the special education program their autistic son was being offered in public school. 1 While they did not prevail in a state agency hearing or in court on their claim that Andrew needed a private school to meet his special educational needs, the state hearing officer ordered the school district to provide better training for school personnel and to improve communication with his parents. 2 Charlie F., a child with disabilities, spent a year in a regular classroom in which the teacher permitted the other students to complain about him. 3 The year is over and Charlie is in a better class now, but he suffered through a year of verbal attacks. 4 D.F., an autistic child, moved with his parents to a new school district. 5 The school district initially refused to register him without documentation that it had not required for his sister, then sent a school bus without seat belts, and then proposed a class that did ...
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- Title
- A DILLER, A DOLLAR: SECTION 1983 DAMAGE CLAIMS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION LAWSUITS
- Creators
- Terry Jean Seligmann
- Publication Details
- Georgia Law Review, Vol.36, pp.465-1149
- Publisher
- Georgia Law Review Association Georgia Law Review
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Identifiers
- 991021862390304721