By Alice Doyel Guest blogger In this week’s blog, I spoke with Karen Pillar, one of TeamChild’s bright and compassionate attorneys dedicated to helping our youth live safe and happy lives. TeamChild provides legal advice and legal advocacy to people 12 to 24 years old who are involved with or at risk of involvement … Read more TeamChild’s Karen Pillar on Inequity in School Discipline
By Alice Doyel Guest blogger Many students who require special education services are fearful at school, anxious they may get suspended or worse. “Feeling like they are always on the edge of being blamed for things that weren’t their fault.”[1] Most parents are uncertain about what to do. Will fighting the school for their … Read more Attorney Chris Williams on How and Why School Exclusions Happen
By Alice Doyel Guest blogger I kept a 13-year-old boy out of school for half of his second semester of 7th grade! I did not keep this young teenager out of school for homeschooling nor for the online public school program. I kept him out of school to be safe from receiving numerous unwarranted … Read more Meet Alice Doyel, Legal Guardian of a Public School Student