Guardian ad litem vs Court Investigator

[Ohiogal]

It was recommended to us [by school adminsitration] that the child's school psychologist test our son - we both agreedm - so I'm not sure what you disagree with here. We all agreed our son was having academic / emotional problems but none of us could pin point why. Speaking for myself, I was more than willing to have him tested.

That is NOT what you said before. What you said before was:

The child's school psycholgist and adminsitrator strongly advised / threatened the mother to have our child evaluated by a indeoendat psychologist last school year.

They don't have a right to threaten anybody.

At the time I didn't have parental rights to make those decisions. I did step out of bounds once and made a appointment for him with Children's hospital even though I had no legal right to do so. Of course, mom never kept that appointment after she said she would. Subsequent appts to schedule were refused. I realize I should have established parental rights, just answering why I didn't make the appt myself. I knew I couldn't get her to listen to me so I had the school threaten legal action and it worked.

You should have tried the courts. NOT using a school to threaten legal action which they CANNOT do.

When I said "her psycholoigist" I meant the one she found for our son, he's a children's psychologist. Yes, we now have two psych evaluations. One showng him suffering from clinical depression and another where he was diagnosed with a "shared pychotic disorder". My point is that the doctor she chose is the one that found her to be the root of our son's disorder.

That makes more sense.

 

[mcwjjm]

They don't have a right to threaten anybody.

Not trying to be argumentitive but it's my understanding that the school in cases of neglect of one of their students may contract Children's Services and report it. If that is true than wouldn't the threat of such action be legitimate? I wasn't trying to circumvent the law, just get results. Either way it worked, and I would think the response time was faster than if I'd gone through the courts.

The reason I ask is because I don't know. But this is what I was told by a Children's Services intake officer.

 

[Ohiogal]

Not trying to be argumentitive but it's my understanding that the school in cases of neglect of one of their students may contract Children's Services and report it. If that is true than wouldn't the threat of such action be legitimate? I wasn't trying to circumvent the law, just get results. Either way it worked, and I would think the response time was faster than if I'd gone through the courts.

The reason I ask is because I don't know. But this is what I was told by a Children's Services intake officer.

If the school believes a child is being neglected they MUST report it. And the threat would NOT be legitimate. They are not supposed to threaten mom. They are just supposed to do it. End of story. They have no right to tell mom to parent her child any way they decide or any way the other parent tells them to threaten mom to parent. That is despicable and quite frankly not their place.