They Picked The Wrong Mother: A True Story of Advocacy, Accountability, and What Happens When a System Gets It Wrong - Paperback

They told her there was no place for her son.

Not in the classroom.
Not in the system.
Not among his peers.

They documented it.
They decided it.
And in thirty-eight minutes, they set his future in motion.

They expected her to accept it.

They were wrong.

For seven years, Cheri Amour Mahan did everything the system asked.

She attended the meetings.
She followed the process.
She asked the questions.

And when the answers didn't come-
when the records didn't match,
when the explanations fell apart,
and when silence replaced accountability-

she stopped asking the same way.

She got clear.