Weston’s Autism Classroom
Aug 20, 2018 – A rare look at Weston’s Autism classroom and what goes on.
In 2005, it was finally time for Weston to start public schools. When we took him to school that September we were mortified to find a dozen kids with severe autism and one untrained teacher and another untrained aid. We immediately pulled Weston out and enrolled him in a private School in Phoenix where we would drive him 200 mi round trip each week.
The school district paid for it for 2 years at 20,000 plus plus a year. After doing this we decided we wanted to come back to Prescott and live our lives with our family. It made it especially disturbing when we found out the public schools were taking special education money to the tune of $24,600, rolling it over into the general fund and not even spending it on what it was earmarked for.
We decided we would have to leave our hometown of Prescott and find something more suitable for our children educational wise. We move to Columbia Missouri and spent over a quarter of a million dollars in 2 years. Then in 2008 the economy crashed and we were forced to return to our district. The problem for them was Weston and Emily had solid gold IEPs that had to be followed. They of course didn’t end a series of legal maneuvers and lawsuits put an end to their misdeeds and created a big shake up.
For the next 10 years plus we put the fear of God in the school district. What we uncovered I could write a book about. Fast forward now to 2022 and they’re both out of school but they received an incredible education only because of our efforts and a man named Ray. School districts are nothing but money Mills where they launder the money back and forth and who knows where it goes. Prescott unified School district was the worst the absolute worst.
We have done everything humanely possible to ensure that our children would become all they could be despite their injuries. We are so proud of their progress!
