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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So is least restrictive environment considered "adequate/acceptable" schooling or "exceptional/ideal" schooling?

I ask becuase the running away/field trip scenario. At what point does safety and welfare of the child take precedent over bringing the child to an unsafe situation like the zoo field trip where the staff feels like they cannot keep him from running off and might loose him?
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Why are you so fixated on elopement?[/quote]

I am the poster who you are questioning.

I had a non special ed child who was a runner through u til he started school. He was quick and stealthy, and unless he was leashed with the monkey backpack or strapped in a stroller, even as old as four, there was a good chance he could run off, even with the most attentive parenting.

I did lose him at a museum. This was with three adults keeping an eye out for him. It was very quick, like a let go of his hand to scratch my leg quick, and he was under an exhibit, through some legs and out of sight within seconds. We found him one room over, but it was the most terrifying five minutes of my life.

Having a runner myself and knowing what they are capable of if they are fixated on being somewhere else (in his case he wanted to go back to an exhibit in an earlier room), I think it is a bit unreasonable to say "Well, they just need to have someone supervising the kid." At some point, safety and risk needs to be weighed more carefully than anything else.[/quote]

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