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[quote=Anonymous]My child was getting just slightly worse grades than that when they got a 504. I don't think you have to have failing grades as a legal matter. The purpose is to give kids with disability access to "learning*. It doesn't have to do with "potential" or "good grades."

I think I have heard of a kid who got good grades but got a 504 because it was taking him much, much more work than kids without a disability to get those grades. A homework assignment that was supposed to take 15 minutes took an hour or more.

When you say writing, do you mean writing composition or handwriting? Public schools are pretty bad about teaching writing composition so I don't think an accommodation would help. They are also bad about teaching handwriting, I suppose, but if bad handwriting is interfering with an ability to learn (maybe making it so they can't take notes in class) I would think you could just talk to the teachers about that, maybe ask if they can take notes with a keyboard or have somebody else take notes for them.[/quote]

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