Hubby called to see if this was something that we needed legal representation for, and initially was told no. However, when he called the legal office, he was given a message to the effect that they couldn’t talk to him about this or represent us since they were behind the investigation.
Oh boy.
He did get a hold of the JAG for his unit, who is about a 5 hour drive north of here. He explained to him what happened, and what was going on. The JAG made sounds back to Hubby which implied that he thought this was much more serious than we were led to believe from the folks here; the kind of serious that could get #3 taken away from us and put into a psychiatric institution.
At this point, panic officially set in for both of us. We began making phone calls to anyone and everyone who could be there for this board and give witness to previous behavioral issues, and present behavior issues, attest that #3 is a good kid and do anything else to equate shaking pom-poms and being in our corner. We’ve got the principal going with us with a copy of his IEP and other information to back us up. At the meeting with the police last week the principal didn’t remember that #3 was on an IEP and the police were told that he had no type of behavioral plan or anything in place. Since that was incorrect, and the paperwork has in fact been found and everyone at the school brought up to speed with what is going on with #3, hopefully that will help to avoid much of the otherwise unpleasant issues that potentially could arise.
I’m off to buy TUMS to replace all that Hubby and I were gobbling up by the handfuls yesterday. I may come home with a few cases of that and possibly some Maalox.