School System-and IEP's

I have grown to totally hate and despise the school system. Stetson went to school for 2 years at a private preschool, then for Kindergarten attended Declo Elementary. During that year someone (whom we have yet to figure out who it was) called and informed the school that we do not live in that county and Stetson would need special services so we wouldn't be able to continue attending that school, since when you have special needs all the rules for open enrollment change....You are no longer eligible for open enrollment, you have to stay in your own district. So this year Stetson was in 1st grade at Declo and a few months into the year they come to me and say..."you don't live here he can't go here because he will need to be on an IEP he is falling behind". We agreed to allow him to stay there for the rest of the year, and we would work on moving into the district so that he would be able to go to Declo on an IEP with no problems. So we started our quest for a home, and found out that our dream house was again up for sale in Albion. So we started the process of getting ready to buy our house and everything was going to pan our for Stetson to attend Declo forever. Then the bomb was dropped....after a surprise IEP meeting that I walked into totally unprepared and unsuspecting as to what was happening...they informed me that even if we moved there they felt that Stetson needed to go to a different school that they wouldn't meet his needs there any longer. So here we are in the middle of purchasing a home just so Stetson can go there, and now no matter what he can't go there. I was devastated, how was I going to explain to him that the school that he loves and the only school that he knows is being taken away from us. He is accepted there, he is helped out there, he LOVES it there...and now we have to start over. It was just not fair at all. So once again we were having to think of what we were going to do now. Our dream house seemed like something that was unnecessary to purchase now. Why would we want to live in Albion and have the kids bused to Burley to special needs class rooms when we could just stay where we are for cheaper payments and have them go to school in Heyburn. So in the end after many tears and sleepless nights we decided that we should just stay put and tell Declo they can shove their ridiculous ideas and IEP. This decision has made us so sad. We LOVE Declo and have always imagined the kids going to school there and us living there. We feel so discriminated against and that this is so not fair any so many ways. We had the best teachers and janitors and kids at that school that accepted and helped Stetson so much. It will never be the same, but we have to be optimistic and move on. So next year Stetson will attend Heyburn elementary for the 2nd grade and Brooklyn will go to Acequia for Kindergarten.