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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you for your time. My child is not asking for this, I am.  Perhaps due to experiences with another school system, I have higher expectations of a school than "I don't care if this is a very bad fit for your child with special needs, we refuse to be flexible."  What I expect of an IEP team is team work to try to address real problems and developmental goals.  That is education.  My goal is for my pre-teen to learn how to swim.  I can't imagine a PE teacher's ego is so fragile that s/he couldn't understand that water safety and targeted 1-1 OT-informed special needs fitness instruction might be more useful and important at this point in my child's development than 2 class periods of a chaotic PE class with 30+ students that is generally an exercise in humiliation and failure due to a disbability.  I have an economy of time and stress to manage or learning in all subjects can be compromised when stress gets too high.  This is not about trying to opt my child "out of every activity that makes him uncomfortable."  I assure there are challenges to coping throughout the day.

My post, perhaps not stated clearly enough, is about how best to go about inquiring with a school about substituting 2 periods a week of privately paid special needs PE instruction for 2 periods out of 5 of ill-fitting (for my child) PE instruction.  I have heard of people doing this in MCPS and am hoping someone who has done this will share their experience.  [/quote]

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