Lenore Silverman Attorney

Lenore Silverman is padding her bank account on the souls of our children. She doesn't care about our kids!

She cares about keeping our kids in programs that will not help them to become productive citizens. There is a special place in *** for people like Lenore Silverman, that use their power to keep kids like ours in schools that don't allow our kids to thrive and to become independent. We've become her enemy, we, who pay our taxes, law abiding citizens like us, that in turn pays her salary to vilify families like us that are looking out for our children's education and welfare.

Lenore, one family asked, "how does she sleep at night"? We are asking the same thing...I pray,it's not well!

I had a very similar experience involving this attorney in a district that I won't identify (for fear of retribution by this attorney). Silverman repeatedly attempted to bully and intimidate my family, and made disparaging and highly inappropriate comments about my child throughout the IEP process including remarks about how my child was "profoundly retarded." It was also clear to me that she was the one pulling the administrator's and teacher's strings behind the scenes and effectively running my district.

Its amazing and shocking to me that this is how my districts special education department is being run, by an attorney who obviously has no training in special education and doesn't even live in the district where she's imposing her will and whims on families!

I can't believe this is the state of special education in a seemingly progressive california town is the year 2008. It's a sad state of affairs.

In addition to the above SHE HAS a special needs child--unbelievable

I TOTALLY agree with everything written above. She wastes so many billable hours stalling parents at taxpayers expense.

She calls meetings and invites all sorts of school employes who haven't worked with the child in years and tells them what to say. This year in addition to her usual $500,000 annual yearly billable hours, she has asked for an additional $250,000. Honestly, when the schol district asks taxpayers for more money, they should vote a resounding NO until the district starts spending the money on the children instead of an overpaid underqualified lawyer. Let Carlos Garcia KNOW that this has to STOP!!

Let lenore go soak another district. She has been fired out of two other districts.

Why is SF so ***? :x

I couldn't agree more with the comments above. I've never seen someone so hostile towards the rights of the disabled and antagonistic towards parents of these children.

What's amazing is that Silverman -- a private attorney with no training in special education --appears to be running and administering the City of San Francisco's special education department. Needless to say, this is a huge dis-service to public education not to mention a substantial waste of our taxpayer money.

About the only person who appears to be benefitting from this is Silverman herself who is lining her pockets with public money used to inhibit and prohibit our disabled childrens' access to their legally entitled education and services. I can't imagine how she can sleep at night.