Developer files suit against school’s move
Thursday, August 22, 2013
BY LESLIE BRODY
STAFF WRITER
The Record
The parents of a 19-year-old Closter student with autism have filed suit to stop his county-run school from moving to Ridgewood from Rockleigh, saying the move would hurt his education and put him in danger.
Daibes
The New Bridges program, run by the Bergen County Special Services school district, taught about 60 disabled high school students last year at the Rockleigh campus, which the county is trying to sell. Bergen County officials announced last February that it planned to move the program to Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Ridgewood for the coming school year while awaiting construction of a new facility on county land in Paramus.
In a complaint filed Tuesday in Superior Court in Hackensack, Elizabeth and Fred Daibes, a prominent Bergen County developer, argued that the county planned the move without taking into account their son’s “individual education plan,” a legally binding document spelling out services for students with disabilities. The Daibeses’ suit claims their son has a history of running away and might bolt into a busy street near the Our Lady of Mount Carmel building on Passaic Avenue in Ridgewood. The suit also notes that he has a “significant history of anxiety, aggression, destruction of property and tantruming in response to change.”
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WOW!
There is more than one student at this school if you have a problem school him at home you seem to have the financial resources to do so.