Another "New Year's Eve"

Sigh.
Here we go again. Another year over, another about to start. Didn't we just do this? Well, this ought to be a very different, very..interesting year. January, 12th I have to go to court because the school district is charging me and my husband with "Truancy" for our 13 year old son. He's severely allergic to mold that is in his school. My son has asthma and when he started middle school in September 2007 he had asthma problems immediately. Long story short, he was put on "homebound" for 6th grade and 7th grade. Everything was set in place for him to continue on homebound for 8th grade, until a new superintendent of schools came in and nixed it (for my son and several other students). We went to mediation and the district was told to continue homebound for 2 weeks until the OC Board of Health came in to test the school. The school district broke the mediation. We met for mediation again...the mediator spoke to the district representatives alone and then told me that they were wasting my time. We were given notice to go to court to answer charges of truancy...we plead not guilty. Now we're hoping our attorney will be able to come to this court date. My son has an IEP (Individualized Educational Plan) and the district broke that plan by not having an IEP meeting to make a change to that plan. The district is legally wrong. Unfortunately, school districts know that most parents can't afford an attorney and so they break the law, and by the way, they don't care.
Another issue; my 10 year old son, who happens to have Asperger Syndrome, is and has been bullied at school and nothing has been done in this "zero tolerance" environment. His teacher is wonderful and has a nephew with a type of high functioning autism so she understands my son to a point. I got a letter this teacher sent home to all parents of her students, notifying us that as of February 1st, she is retiring. Now I will probably implement a decision I made for middle school, early. I will probably be homeschooling my son. This is totally unbelievable and nauseating that I can not send my sons to a safe environment for their education. Oh, but I do have to pay school taxes.
What will this year bring? More of the same as previous years? I need to reboot my optimism and energy.
Happy New Year! woo hoo...