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<blockquote data-quote="Rannveig" data-source="post: 704835" data-attributes="member: 5689"><p>Thank you both so much, Susiestar and Somewhere. I will definitely take your excellent advice on Google searches and looking into free advocacy (though I'm not sure my state has that -- at least, I haven't been able to find it before). When Odin had the 504 and I asked for no homework as an accommodation, the school said he couldn't get AP credit for his AP classes unless he did homework, because the homework was fundamental to the AP curriculum. Since Odin's high intelligence makes it inappropriate for him to take general ed classes (at least where AP versions are available), we settled for flexible due dates on homework. Of course, then Odin didn't manage to turn in very much even belatedly and even with his lovely teachers (he had a couple of great ones this semester) bending over backwards for him. Nor did we see improvement after he dropped a class to give himself more time to do homework in school. In fact, this is how we came to be able to get him a child study and to qualify for an IEP -- clearly the 504 wasn't enough. I just think they're going to say again that he can only get regular credit, not AP credit, if he doesn't do homework. That sounds bogus to me, so now I guess I'd better get in gear and do some research to find out if that's true. I think maybe there's always some level on which the IEP committee thinks the kid is faking (when it's this kind of cognitive and emotional disability). Intellectually they know executive function problems exist, but emotionally they feel the kid is trying to pull a fast one.</p><p></p><p>Susie, that is a horrendous story about the falsified IEP. I hope that sped teacher lost her job. I know Wiz is doing well now, but it makes me so sad that he and you had to go through that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rannveig, post: 704835, member: 5689"] Thank you both so much, Susiestar and Somewhere. I will definitely take your excellent advice on Google searches and looking into free advocacy (though I'm not sure my state has that -- at least, I haven't been able to find it before). When Odin had the 504 and I asked for no homework as an accommodation, the school said he couldn't get AP credit for his AP classes unless he did homework, because the homework was fundamental to the AP curriculum. Since Odin's high intelligence makes it inappropriate for him to take general ed classes (at least where AP versions are available), we settled for flexible due dates on homework. Of course, then Odin didn't manage to turn in very much even belatedly and even with his lovely teachers (he had a couple of great ones this semester) bending over backwards for him. Nor did we see improvement after he dropped a class to give himself more time to do homework in school. In fact, this is how we came to be able to get him a child study and to qualify for an IEP -- clearly the 504 wasn't enough. I just think they're going to say again that he can only get regular credit, not AP credit, if he doesn't do homework. That sounds bogus to me, so now I guess I'd better get in gear and do some research to find out if that's true. I think maybe there's always some level on which the IEP committee thinks the kid is faking (when it's this kind of cognitive and emotional disability). Intellectually they know executive function problems exist, but emotionally they feel the kid is trying to pull a fast one. Susie, that is a horrendous story about the falsified IEP. I hope that sped teacher lost her job. I know Wiz is doing well now, but it makes me so sad that he and you had to go through that. [/QUOTE]
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