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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How will they address the complete absence in a few of these schools of students with special needs?[/quote]

good question!!  signed, parent of a 2nd HFA grader considering [b]dropping the IEP because I don't want him to be labeled[/b], given the apparent hostility to IEPs at Walls & Banneker. [/quote]

Lots of time. If the backwards attitude doesn't change, you could drop the IEP in MS when it is hopefully less needed.

Two thoughts about htis as the parent of a HS student with special needs.

Six years ago when I first went to a SWW open house, the principal said 'we don't really do accommodations; everyone has to do the same work," [illegal and obnoxious]. I later asked the school about having my son keyboard the exam and was told that wasn't an option (rather than fight it, which I could have, we took it as a signal and didn't feel like taking that on). That language is no longer used by anyone at the school, but fairly or unfairly the perception of being hostile to students with disabilities remains.

That said, there ARE students at SWW with disabilities. There are many who have 504s which are not tracked or reported publicly like IEPs, and their disabilities require accommodations but not specialized instruction. And to the PP, there are HFA students without IEPs there, presumably because they no longer need them to be successful in school. [/quote]

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