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my daughter do an after-school detention and threatening to pick her up? My daughter Amanda,

who's 13, has cerebral palsy. She's able to walk independently, but can't walk for long periods

of time and can't walk on anything other than even ground without assistance. She has an IEP for

this, an individualized education plan that states what she can and can't do in PE. It's relevant

to note that Amanda catches the bus home, but she can only catch a specific route because the

other route the school offers drops off at a road about a mile away that has no footpath.

I got to call it work at 11 a.m. today telling me that Amanda had spoken quite

rudely to a substitute gym teacher who tried to make her climb the rock wall that her school has.

Apparently Amanda said, I can't, I have cerebral palsy, I have an IEP, but when another kid said,

yeah same here, the teacher didn't believe her and became insistent. And then the teacher stood

over her so Amanda told him to f off and wouldn't repeat anything except for f off until she was

into the office. It's in the handbook that this type of offense is a same day after school detention.

But when the principal called me, I said absolutely not. I told them they were welcome to do a

week's worth of lunch detentions or even schedule it so I can change my work schedule, but absolutely

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