Hello,
Read and google: Wright's LAW. Ask your questions there.

Yep, take a nice little walk and don't worry about hurting anyone's feelings besides your family's. Don't worry about what the school will think. They will still have plenty of other people's children to deal with. You are the only one who knows the best what your child needs. You are his best advocate and will be able to take care of his issues as they come along. I guarantee that the only thing the school district will be caring about will be the $$$ they will lose by your child not attending. Maybe his teacher will care a little more than that but the rest of the students will take her mind off your child soon enough.

HOME! You don't have to keep your child in school just because he is on an IEP and depending on the school district, you can ask them to keep his IEP open for a short period of time if you want to keep that lifeline open but then you may not give homeschooling a real try if you know what I mean? There are all kinds of social activities you can get your child into if you want to just look to find them. There's Scouting and 4-H, Church and homeschooling groups (both special needs groups and mixed groups) Let me know if I can help you any.
Edwina
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Check out Home School Legal Defense for specific laws concerning your state. In KY, I've always home schooled my daughter but had her evaluated by the public school. They gave me a proposed IEP, but I did not have to accept it. I haven't had any problems with it and I continue to home school her.

at the meeting we just had (after i asked this, we are accepting OT & speech... the specifics are undertermined. I think our finances and my work schedule will not mean that my child is here (in our house0 all year long (staying with extended family)... so i just want to make sure that if we travel, there will not be bad business from the school that we aren;t using eth services they offer. as for petty stuff.... we are BEYOND that... i have been denied an IEP meeting outright twice. we have spoken to advocates and law consultation, and teh superintendent... it is clear that there are "procedural irregularities", and they are NOT meeting my son's needs, period, so we homeschool. We have had extensive tearfu lmeetings, and couched this as our concern for them, that his behavior has degenerated to the point that they will be forced to do unkind things... because our son has NEVER been given a behavior plan. we told them that we thought he would be able t come back to school someday... but NOT before a behavior managemnt plan is IN PLACE BEFORE he walks in the door. Ultimately they do not want to maintain sufficient com,munication with me... they are NOT documenting or addressing ANY sensory issues, and never have... our concerns are NOT petty, have been brought up over and over and over... and we have a younger one to get thru the system, so we are VEERY cafreful that this does not create the type of bad relationships that will affect that child's experience as well. we'll see how the services thing goes, but we are prepared to walk away if they use that against us. I have never questioned teh emotionalt commitment of the individuals that work with my son, only the overall dynamic of eth staff that is busy posturing for classroom control instead of SEEING children. THANKS FOR ALL ADVICE!!!!!!!!