Klamath County school board upholds trespass order after parent confronted IEP coordinator

The Klamath County School District board voted to accept the superintendent's recommendation and uphold a trespass notice issued May 22, 2025, after a parent approached a teacher at Henley Middle School to discuss her child's individualized education program (IEP).

The hearing, opened by the board's hearing facilitator, was to decide whether the trespass order should be upheld, modified or rescinded. The board heard five-minute presentations from the appellant and from district staff, followed by questions and short rebuttals before making a motion and vote.

The appellant, identified in the record as Miss Ames, told the board she went to the school to support her daughter's request to add phone-based text-to-speech to an IEP accommodation after the district removed laptops from student use. Ames said the teacher declined to discuss the matter in front of students only at the end of the exchange and that she believed an appointment was not required earlier that day. "I did everything that I thought I was supposed to do, and because the teacher didn't speak up when I prefaced why we were there, I'm now trespassed because I tried to facilitate conversation between my daughter and her IEP coordinator," Ames said during her…