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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No it's not. It's not great for the child who is spends years wasting away in a DCPS classroom not learning a damn thing. Our kids are not guinea pigs, you either have well trained professionals in classrooms or you don't, but don't ask me to "stick with you" while you spend the entire school year trying to train yet another goner of a teacher in ABA, etc. Until DC is actually able to provide a placement that truly fits the individual's needs rather than to try to cut corners and check of the compliance list, there will still be kids falling through the cracks.

I'm fairly certain that my kid costs DCPS as much as it would if he was in a private setting at this point. It works for now, and I am a very involved and informed parent who is all for change in the system, but if the day comes that my son can no longer receive FAPE through DCPS, I am going hold DCPS accountable. [/quote]

As a parent, I would do whatever my kid needed, and if a private placement was what was needed, then I'd fight tooth and nail.  As a parent, my first and pretty much only responsibility is to find what's best for my child and advocate for it.

I'm also a teacher, however, and as a special educator who has worked in all kinds of schools, including both non-public and public, I can tell you that a handful of private options is not a substitute for a robust, tiered special education system such as they have in other parts of the country.  Students in DC deserve much more than a choice between a local public school where their IEP won't be implemented, and a private school that might or might not take them, where they'll have no exposure to typical kids or the grade level curriculum.

OP, if you're faced with the choice between staying and fighting for IEP implementation, sending your child to a segregated private school, or moving to the suburbs for a better inclusion experience, I would urge you to look at both options carefully.  Before deciding that a private school is what you want, tour both kinds of settings, and talk to parents.  There are some great private schools in DC for very specific kinds of kids, but there are also plenty of kids currently in private who would be better off someone where else.  Similarly, there are kids in MCPS who are very well served, and others who would benefit from someplace like the Lab School or the Model Asperger's Program at Ivymount.  Only you can determine which is right for your kid.  [/quote]

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