Reply to Realistic chance of private placemt in DCPS

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Realistic chance of private placemt in DCPS"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My kid is in a private now (we pay and it's hard).  It is cheaper to education him in private than in public and there was no appropriate public option, but DCPS sure wasn't going to fund him anywhere.  I would estimate that he cost about $60K/year in public with an aide.  His private is $38K.  He's a tough kid to educate, but he's definitely better off in the private, despite the best efforts of DCPS, ha ha.  It is hard to figure out a private that fits when the kid isn't just straight forward LD or autism with no behaviors so look very carefully at where you choose.

We and some other people we know had no success in our forays into trying to get funded, despite some officials stating that there was no appropriate placement for our child in DCPS.  We didn't go all out fight, but it was very clear that if we had, it would not have been an easy win, if we had won at all.  We opted to save the legal fees to at least eek out 1 year of private (they would be about the same).

Oh, and we have outside testing and lawyers and all the things that one should do to win.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics