Question for Parents with 2E Children in AAP

[Anonymous]

He gets special services because of his Special Education status, not because he qualified for AAP. The AAP part of his services did not cost the county anymore than a Gen Ed student. Since it is LLVI, he didn't even have the extra expense of bussing to a Center school. The 80 children in his ES grade needed three Gen ed or AAP teachers- two taught Gen Ed and one taught AAP. The Special Education children receive services regardless of if they are in Gen Ed, AAP or in the special education classroom. Average or low average students with the same disabilities would qualify for the same services.

OP here: I agree with the above 100%. My son also gets services by law as a special education child. He too gets this regardless of whether he is in Gen. Ed or AAP. This is required by law. What would make less sense would be for the county to waste money on special ed. services that are not addressing his needs-this is what is happening now to a certain extent.