<p>Since you ARE in a public school, you can contact their Student Services Coordinator and ask for an evaluation and 504 accommodations and meeting federal IDEA laws.<br>
When you have a condition that affects your ability to learn (as the conditions you describe clearly do), the school has an obligation to provide you with a FREE & APPROPRIATE PUBLIC EDUCATION (FAPE). They are also obligated to consider all medical & other documentation that your family provides about your condition in evaluating your condition.
Based on your prior history with your HS, they MAY allow you to participate in the graduation ceremony & activities while you actually get an incomplete until you're able to complete whatever is required & can be worked out with your school to accommodate your special needs at this time. In any case, they should extend your deadlines IF you & your family work with them & your docs.
I agree that it would be useful to contact the UCI Disability Department (all schools have one) & work out a deferred acceptance. It would not be fair to you to start school before you've fully recovered (or at least recovered beyond your current condition).
The sooner your family works with your school & UCI, the better for everyone & the more you can focus on healing & recovering.</p>
<p>Here's a site with resources for your family to consider if they need help working with the school district on these issues:</p>
<p>If the school continues to be unreasonable, YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO SUE THEM. </p>
<p>YOU'RE SOUNDING LIKE "Oh we'll try to settle this as quietly as possible" when you should be mad as hell and you should put your foot down, as should your parents. </p>
<p>This is serious, and if you don't put your foot down, the system will fail you.</p>
<p>That's terrible. I'm sure Irvine isn't going to be anal about this. Just call the office, explain your situation to your counselor, and see what they say. This is what they call "a drastic change in your life". They usually forgive.</p>
<p>Unless you have PERSONAL experience with lawsuits & all that they entail, please don't encourage others to engage in this process with all the huge expense and complications that come with it. Once you enter into such an antagolistic relationship, you have well & truly burnt bridges that you may still need to cross. This can further SLOW the process & getting OP what is needed as well.</p>
<p>No matter what course of action is chosen, the OP will need to get medical evidence to support the full extent of injuries & communicate with the schools. Keeping a cooperative/collaberative relationship will help keep the stress level down and allow much more to be accomplished than immediately escalating the situation.</p>
<p>HImom, you obviously know what you're talking about.</p>
<p>I'm wondering, though, whether vipe might lose all the rights that belong to a student with a disability if he graduates or gets a GED. It's entirely possible that if he does at least some of the make-up work that he's been asked to do, he will get grades high enough to allow him to graduate (but not high enough for UCIrvine). This is not a desirable outcome from vipe's point of view, but it might be desirable from the school's point of view because it gets him out of the school system and out of their hair. Getting a GED would have more-or-less the same impact. A student who isn't in the system anymore can't request special services, right?</p>
<p>It sounds to me as though the school is trying to get rid of vipe. He might be better off NOT graduating so that he would still be a part of the school system, which would then be required to deal with him as a special needs student.</p>
<p>At least that's how it looks to me. Or am I making some sort of incorrect assumption here?</p>
<p>Talk to your principal, or to the school board. Also, definately talk to UCI and explain to them what the situation is, and ask about deferring admission if you need to. They should certainly be sympathetic.</p>
<p>If worse comes to worse, could you switch schools and finish up HS somewhere else?</p>
<p>If you don't want to do that, CALL THE MEDIA and let slip the dogs of war</p>
<p>NONE of us are qualified to give the OP the advice he really needs. He NEEDS to meet with folks with his family, such as those listed on the thread I posted above. They will go into his situation in depth & help make recommendations that are best suited to meeting his present and future needs. </p>
<p>The internet is a wonderful place for general info but NOT a good way to plan one's life with something as important as current & future education, especially where there are special medical needs that have to be considered as well.</p>
<p>Please do NOT rely upon my advice or that of anyone else's that you read here or elsewhere. You would be shortchanging yourself and your future. We can only give general guidance & help you find resources. I would urge you to contact these resources right away rather than allowing more time to pass--this gives you more options. Also, if they can't help you, ask them for referral to somewhere & someone who CAN! Good luck!</p>
<p>Ok, maybe he shouldn't threaten to sue right away. </p>
<p>But I'm saying, in case they still do not reason with him and are still being unfair, then he has to sue. </p>
<p>For now, yes, he just has to try to reason with them. But if that doesn't work and they are still unreasonable, suing is the next step unfortunately. Hopefully it won't get to that point.</p>
<p>whoa, you sure are able to type prefectly and comprhend your situation perfectly for someone who couldn't comprehend anything for the past 2 months</p>
<p>Suing is equivalent of the "nuclear option" and should NOT be considered until other avenues have been exhausted. Talk of lawsuits actually discourages cooperation and really can make things MUCH worse for everyone, particularly the student. </p>
<p>Real life is not like the movies or CourtTV or "reality shows" where a lawsuit is a "magic wand" that makes everyone suddenly realize how things should be & makes everything "all better." Lawsuits are very awkward & costly & lengthy, particularly in getting educational needs met.</p>
<p>I would additionally contact the neurologist who treated you, or whoever else is handling your care. They need to communicate with UCI and everyone at your hs--your GC, your teachers, and your principal (b.c. in light of your GC's behavior, that's who you should talk to). I agree, your GC is completely out of line. But I think that ignorance is probably the cause of his/her and your teachers' inappropriate reactions.</p>
<p>Colleges and adcomms see unusual situations all the time. UCI's policy is designed for those afflicted with senioritis, not recovering from a rare, severe brain injury. Above all, keep them in the loop; otherwise they'll assume your grades took a nosedive b.c. of the former instead of the latter.</p>