Parent asks Plainfield board to exempt autistic student from transfer rule after paperwork error

At the Plainfield Community School Corp’s June meeting, parent April Clark requested the board make an exception to a district rule that would bar certain transfer students for the 2025–26 school year so her son, Remy, could remain in Plainfield.

Clark said a change of address submitted last year did not complete because of missing paperwork, which left her son technically designated a transfer student. “My son, Remy, is high functioning autistic, and he we had an address change last year that didn't go all the way through. There were some missing paperwork,” Clark said.

She asked the board to exempt Remy, saying he has already chosen classes for next year and that forcing him to change schools would be disruptive. “He's already picked his classes for next year, so I don't see how we can... penalize him for paperwork not going through and force him to go to another school just to have to do it again,” Clark said. She added that Remy “does not do well with change” and that continuity matters because some therapists who have worked with him in earlier grades also serve students in the Plainfield high school.

Clark further relayed an anecdote about her son reacting to driving past an Avon school construction site: she said he told her, “I don't remember signing up to go to Avon,” and later that he said, “I think Plainfield schools are the only place I'll ever fit in.”

The segment was part of the meeting’s public‑comment period; the transcript records Clark’s request but does not record any board response, motion, or vote on the exception during that meeting.