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Interesting tidbit from NAMI class tonight
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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 312375" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>I don't know how you could verify the information because frankly, it's illegal to put into writing that the federal government is going to reduce the number of children who qualify for IEPs. Children who qualify for IEPs should be based on need rather than a bottom-line number, according to the law.</p><p> </p><p>Having said that, there does appear to be a trend across the country to keep Special Education kids in mainstream classrooms rather than move them into self-contained special-ed classrooms. In my daughter's elementary school of 500 students, there is no Special Education classroom, except for a pull-out resource room that a student might have for one classroom period a day. We do live in a huge county SD of 138,000 students so kids with more severe needs are bused to schools/programs that can meet their Special Education needs.</p><p> </p><p>I will also add that our county is very good at stonewalling. My daughter A never even qualified for a 504 Plan when she was in public school despite documentation of a severe mood disorder (one reason we pulled her out for a private school). And we were not able to prove that my son J needed a more intensive therapeutic program despite the fact that he went through an entire school year not saying one word to a student or teacher. At our IEP meeting last June, the SD said he should have the same placement because he was making "progress." We would have had to sue our SD and decided it was not worth the time or money that we could just put into treatment for J. That's when we sent him to the wilderness program and then to the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) in Utah.</p><p> </p><p>Sorry for the rambling, but this is a hot button for me. While I don't think you can prove that SDs are reducing Special Education services, I think SDs can do it in ways that are not so blatant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 312375, member: 2423"] I don't know how you could verify the information because frankly, it's illegal to put into writing that the federal government is going to reduce the number of children who qualify for IEPs. Children who qualify for IEPs should be based on need rather than a bottom-line number, according to the law. Having said that, there does appear to be a trend across the country to keep Special Education kids in mainstream classrooms rather than move them into self-contained special-ed classrooms. In my daughter's elementary school of 500 students, there is no Special Education classroom, except for a pull-out resource room that a student might have for one classroom period a day. We do live in a huge county SD of 138,000 students so kids with more severe needs are bused to schools/programs that can meet their Special Education needs. I will also add that our county is very good at stonewalling. My daughter A never even qualified for a 504 Plan when she was in public school despite documentation of a severe mood disorder (one reason we pulled her out for a private school). And we were not able to prove that my son J needed a more intensive therapeutic program despite the fact that he went through an entire school year not saying one word to a student or teacher. At our IEP meeting last June, the SD said he should have the same placement because he was making "progress." We would have had to sue our SD and decided it was not worth the time or money that we could just put into treatment for J. That's when we sent him to the wilderness program and then to the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) in Utah. Sorry for the rambling, but this is a hot button for me. While I don't think you can prove that SDs are reducing Special Education services, I think SDs can do it in ways that are not so blatant. [/QUOTE]
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