Kelly Neal

Which can be so delightful.

would have to say this whole journey that I'm on right now basically started on a good Friday which I intended to go to church but I did not because I had to go to a meeting for my son who was in the first grade this was in March and then they informed to me that they wanted to retain him and I'm like well that's news to me like what's going on and I know that sounds like I'm not a very informed parent but

But I think a lot of parents get ambushed.

Like back when I was in school, the grades were A, B, C, D, E, F. Well, in first grade, it was like M, S. I don't know like how to decode this.

And the teachers kept telling me, you know, there's some things he's not great at, but things are going to be fine.

But then at the end of the year...

They wanted to retain him, and then I was just like, no.

Well, we later learned that my child had autism, and so he learns differently, and so we just kind of had to deal with that.

But from that point on, I started taking all of my—

legal education to keep my law license in education law because I knew that I was going to have to fight for my kid because I knew that this grandmotherly looking first grade teacher who I thought was so nice was really just like not great.

Well, the outcome is you cannot trust schools.

I don't care how nice they are.

You just can't do it.

Don't don't do it.

And schools are always talking about how, you know, we need to collaborate and and trust.

Well, I can collaborate with you just like I can collaborate with my ex-husband.

It's kind of on that level.

Yeah.

But I'm never going to trust you.

So you were on the spectrum too?