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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the things our high school did was provide parents with a list of expectations for each class that included how many hours of homework a day, how much writing was required, etc.  They also had an evening program that I took my son to. When my son went through this phase, I put together a schedule of what his week would look like if he took the classes he was suggesting. He reached the conclusion that it wasn't realistic.

[b]You will not get a modification of no homework for high level classes. [/quote][/b]

Wrong.  In public school, it would be illegal to deny an accommodation for a high level class for a disabled student.  (Probably in private school also, but there is more leeway there.)  Modifications of homework can be done in many ways.  Kids can do alternate problems.  Kids can have more time to turn homework in.  Kids can have homework scribed for them.  Kids can turn in alternative projects (like a video explanation of a chemistry experiment instead of a written report).

Saying, "we refuse to modify homework for high level classes," is denying disabled students the opportunities available to non-disabled students.

Modified homework is absolutely an available accommodation.  You might have to fight for it, but it is an option. Keep going up the chain and complaining if you are denied this kind of accommodation.

Signed, the mom of 2 different SN kids in magnet programs.  [/quote]

Sorry, should add I am not addressing "no" homework, but the fact that homework can be modified in such a way as to reduce it (but, admittedly, not reduce it to zero). [/quote]

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