From the Concord Monitor<\/p>\n
The parents of a severely disabled Deering boy say they will file a lawsuit against the Hillsboro-Deering School Board after it again refused to discuss a decision to put their son into the public school district.<\/p>\n
Ed Naile, chairman of the New Hampshire Coalition of Taxpayers, a group that is representing Cindy and Joel Durham, asked the board to consider evidence from their son’s doctor that moving him from Crotched Mountain would adversely impact his health.<\/strong><\/p>\n The board last night voted, 1-2, with one abstention, not to overrule judgment by interim chairwoman Kathy Pepper that it is not the board’s policy to talk about individual students.<\/p>\n After holding a nonpublic session in May, the board decided, 3-2, not to vote on a decision made by the district’s special education team to bring the Durhams’ son, Joel, into the public school system. The Durhams have filed several right-to-know requests to find out what the board discussed in nonpublic session and said they will bring lawsuit against the board next week to find out what was said.<\/p>\n Joel Durham, 17, suffers from autism and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy and has been attending Crotched Mountain School since age 10.<\/p>\n “Before I go to superior court… I just want to make sure everybody understands what we’re doing and our ultimate goal,” Naile said. “I want to make sure all the records we’ve submitted, you’ve seen.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Concord Monitor The parents of a severely disabled Deering boy say they will file a lawsuit against the Hillsboro-Deering School Board after it again refused to discuss a decision to put their son into the public school district. Ed Naile, chairman of the New Hampshire Coalition of Taxpayers, a group that is representing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100,22,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-education","category-rtk","category-school-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}