Cooperation

He had a cup of juice w/ dinner

Lily wanted it. made complaining baby sounds.

When he'd just about finished it, he walked up to her highchair and
gave her the last little bit.

More on the schools front

to paraphrase

any district can use the program he's in

but they've got to do an iep to decide if they want to

and if they want the money for his head (headcounts = money) and think
they can handle him, they won't. (my words here not theirs)

yay.

and can't rule out schools of choice but don't believe any district
would be willing to give up a space in the program to an out of
district student.

I'm sorry, I realize you want the best for your kid, but it's really
all about money (my words again, not theirs, though they did genuinely
offer their sympathies, this here is sarcasm). You just don't realize
that unless your kid isn't typical or somewhat typical. We expect that
you just don't care and blindly send him where ever the school
district chooses (which, admittedly, is what I did to start but I'm
just damn lucky the school district he's in chose what's best for him,
and didn't give me any reason to question it).

*beats head against the wall*

Of course, if my mother didn't decide to move to EL to be close to my
sister when we'd move up here I'd be blissfully unaware that there
were better school districts in the area, and maybe it wouldn't have
occurred to me to look around for the best damn thing for my kids...