Update on "I've never felt more helpless"
My last post was way too long for me to do an update.
https://www.reddit.com/r/specialneedsparenting/s/IRr65Rw9eK
I ended up emailing the sped teacher, principal, teacher who runs the Best Buddies. I told them what had happened, everything I offered as a solution, I took my part of the blame by not contacting the principal about my solutions or that I should have walked her to the door at the very least. In the email about I stated how I want us to fix the issues so the next school dance, this doesn't happen again.
The principal called me and apologized. He said her teacher wasn't fully correct in her answers. He said that they could have seen if any aides were available to go. They would have paid them.
I explained that I had offered to go as a chaperone and even stay the entire time after my kid wanted to leave, I was told about the Buddies thing in response. The teacher technically didn't say I could or could not chaperone. I explained that I made an assumption and didn't ask about the typo. Looking back i should have asked. I didn't though, because the email she responded to was only about the dance. Not any homecoming week activities. He said that parents are always welcome at the dance.
He apologized, we are going to tell him next dance that we want an aide to be there. If that doesn't work, we are more than willing to chaperone. Hes going to send out an email to just cover what we talked about. I told her father that basically we were doing everything right and in the order it should have gone, just talking to the wrong people.
It don't make up for it, but at least we can prevent it from happening again or to a different student. I could tell he felt very bad that, that was my daughter's first high school dance experience.