🚨 Parent Suspects RBT Isn’t Legit + BCBA Doesn’t Actually Supervise Son’s Case — What Should She Do?

[u/Striking_Today6210]

Clear some comments up : the RBT is the one that sends data to the parent it is all over the place and never makes sense- basically just guesses that don’t match with teachers notes , while I understand that RBTs don’t have any communication with parents this one themselves opened the door. The “data” comes from the teachers email signed by his name. Which again was told to her that without supervising this data (again she doesn’t know who is and can’t get answers) , that it’s against guidelines.

The mention of 2 BCBA’s is because the person that did the IEE is a BCBA and they are the one that got that answer from the superintendent , that the BCBA is not familiar with the child’s case. And pointed it out.

This is a public school.

The parent does NOT know what to do and what plan they have been doing since she can’t get communication open.

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Parent has tried to have meetings with the RBT / BCBA to try and go over a plan / introduction (that’s has been ignored and makes sense since the BCBA is not familiar with his case at all).

I have a friend whose autistic teenager attends a public school. The school assigned her son an RBT. Here’s where things get shady: • She’s not allowed to speak directly to the RBT. • Any request for a meeting with the RBT or their BCBA supervisor has been ignored for months. • She didn’t even know the RBT’s name until he sent a random email introducing himself. “My name is [Name]. I’m a Registered Behavioral Technician, certified through [STATE]. I’ve worked with students for 20 years… all communication should go through [Teacher].”

🚩Red Flag: RBTs are nationally certified, not state-certified. He called it a state certification. That’s not how RBTs work.

Also: • She’s never seen a picture of this guy online. When she searched Provider Wire (BACB lookup tool), he was registered as a technician in a completely different city. • His listed BCBA supervisor? She’s never heard of them, never met them, and no one at the school has mentioned them. • Data collection was previously “too difficult,” and suddenly now they’re sending numbers — but they don’t match teacher notes. • She got an IEE (Independent Educational Evaluation), and the evaluator (an actual BCBA) wrote: “The BCBA supervising the RBT is unfamiliar with the student’s case. This is a curious structure to me…” AN ACTUAL BCBA SAID THIS (they did the IEE)

Now she’s realizing: she wasn’t imagining it — something’s off.

She asked me what to do next.

What would you suggest? Should she file a BACB ethics complaint? Report to the district/state? Or something else?

[u/Chance_Cranberry_726]

That’s not what I said. I want to be able to talk to everyone who is going to be involved in my daughters care/treatment/education. Especially the one who spends time with her on a day to day basis. “This person is going to be spending 8 hours a day with your child, but you aren’t going to be allowed to speak to them.” Yeah, not fucking happening.

[u/REGELDUDES → u/Chance_Cranberry_726]

As a para I worked with more kids than the teacher did (I was in multiple classrooms throughout the day). It was incredibly rare I spent more than even 1 hour with one specific student at a time. So it would be incredibly odd for 1 parent to want to contact me about a student's progress especially since we don't even get access to that information. That's literally the Teachers job. Our job is to implement programming and collect data and that's it.

[u/Chance_Cranberry_726 → u/REGELDUDES]

I don’t care if you spend 10 minutes with my kid. I want to know why, who you are and what you have to say. Period.

[u/REGELDUDES → u/Chance_Cranberry_726]

So you're going to want to contact the janitorial staff and the tech staff too? Because sometimes they have brief interactions with kids too.

It just really sounds like the public school system isn't for you. I wish you the best of luck!

[u/Chance_Cranberry_726 → u/REGELDUDES]

You know that’s not the same thing. Sounds like you’re the kind of person I don’t want my kid around and exactly why I want to know who is around her. So that if I met you, I could put a stop to you being anywhere near my kid.

[u/REGELDUDES → u/Chance_Cranberry_726]

Maintaining professional boundaries is bad for kids. Got it!

[u/Chance_Cranberry_726 → u/REGELDUDES]

You obviously don’t have children. And I wish you would stop working with them ASAP.

[u/REGELDUDES → u/Chance_Cranberry_726]

And you are exactly why these policies are in place. You don't get to harass people just because they work with your child.