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The Sad State of Special Education in New York
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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 5745" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>With advocacy one can almost always keep an IEP student in school. (Granted, you have to know how--that's why we're here!)</p><p></p><p>The same cannot be said for a regular ed "push out." There is NO protection. </p><p></p><p>Back to my soap box that our kids need IEP protection BEFORE they get to middle school. That is the exclusive reason I made sure my son was IEP qualified in 6th grade. He never attended a "Special Education class" in public school. He also graduated from high school-- a private high school that met his musical, not emotional, needs, but that was our choice. If I had wanted him in public school, he would have been there. It is VERY difficult to get rid of a kid who has an IEP if the parent knows how to keep him in school and the kid will go.</p><p></p><p>Obviously based on graduation rates, either parents do not want their kids in school (odds on that chance??) or they do not know how to keep their children in school. Also, with older kids, they, themselves, may not want to stay. In some cases, this is not the SD's "fault." In others, the SD made the school a very unwelcoming place where a 17 or 18 year old difficult child does not "want" to be.</p><p></p><p>In any event, kids who need school the most are being tossed out.</p><p></p><p>Martie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 5745, member: 284"] With advocacy one can almost always keep an IEP student in school. (Granted, you have to know how--that's why we're here!) The same cannot be said for a regular ed "push out." There is NO protection. Back to my soap box that our kids need IEP protection BEFORE they get to middle school. That is the exclusive reason I made sure my son was IEP qualified in 6th grade. He never attended a "Special Education class" in public school. He also graduated from high school-- a private high school that met his musical, not emotional, needs, but that was our choice. If I had wanted him in public school, he would have been there. It is VERY difficult to get rid of a kid who has an IEP if the parent knows how to keep him in school and the kid will go. Obviously based on graduation rates, either parents do not want their kids in school (odds on that chance??) or they do not know how to keep their children in school. Also, with older kids, they, themselves, may not want to stay. In some cases, this is not the SD's "fault." In others, the SD made the school a very unwelcoming place where a 17 or 18 year old difficult child does not "want" to be. In any event, kids who need school the most are being tossed out. Martie [/QUOTE]
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