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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here,

My kid will need substantial accommodations wherever he goes.  None of those accommodations change the curriculum.  That’s pretty much the definition of accommodations.

Ideally if he attends half time, it would be a consistent half time, so for example he goes to periods 1. 2, 3 and 4 consistently and takes 2 classes through the FCPS online system.  Add in some summer classes, and some credits carried over from middle school, and maybe a fifth year, and hopefully he would make it through.

If there is anyone whose child has been to TJ with an IEP, I would love to hear from them.[/quote]

Accommodations definitely change the curriculum if every kids has to take the much harder TJ version of a class and yours can coast through the online version— and most FCPS online classes aren’t even honors.  If every kid takes Calculus based Geisystems with Bio, Chen and Physics as pre-recs and yours takes watered down FCPS non-honors Earth science, that changes the curriculum. If every kid has to take integrated 2 block humanities and deal with all the extra projects and your kid has non-honors US History, that changes the curricum. If your kid doesn’t do TJ level senior labs, or senior lab pre-recs, that changes the curriculum.

You are asking for your kid to sort of attend TJ, and take watered down on-honors classes while every other kid has to take TJ level classes.  That isn’t an accommodation. It’s changing the curriculum.

Believe me, lots of kids want to take online history instead of HUM 1 or 2. But, integrated Humanities is a core part of the curriculum.  [/quote]

OP here,

Just to be clear, FCPS's online classes have plenty of honors and AP options.   But yes, we would of course expect the math and science classes to be amongst those that he'd take at TJ, since they are, from our perspective, the point of the program.

I have to say that this reads like you feel that my kid is getting some kind of unfair advantage in that he might "get to" take online classes, or homebound versions of TJ classes, while attached to medical equipment in a hospital infusion center, while other kids "have to " take TJ classes.  I guess if you really feel that way, I don't understand why you send your kid there, because from my perspective being healthy enough to take all of your classes at school seems like the preferable choice.

I'm not clear if you're also the PP above you, but I appreciate the information about which classes students have historically been able to substitute.  My son will come in with at least 4 World Language credits, 2 in his native language, and 2 from the language he studied in middle school.  If he can move PE, and EPF to the summers, that provides some breathing room in the schedule too.  [/quote]

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