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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm just saying that is not really the way they handle things as far as I can tell.  they are on top of it.

Mainly I am trying to tell OP she needs an FBA stat to try to dissipate the behaviors instead of going to a dedicated aide. See what I mean? Th only reason givin for the aid is running out the classroom. Let's try to addres that behavior![/quote]

I agree.  My DS tried to run out of the classroom and school building several times this year and would scratch and kick anyone who tried to hold him in.  He had an FBA and a behavioral intervention plan and no longer does this.

Getting an FBA will not get you an aide to stop elopement.  The next step after a FBA is a behavior plan to improve behavior.  [b]At our charter, if the behavioral plan does not improve behavior, the next step is private placement at a SN school not a dedicated aide.[/b][/quote]

And that is blatantly illegal. The law says that the appropriate placement is the least restrictive environment, with whatever supports are necessary. There are, of course, issues and conditions that cannot be fixed by having a dedicated aide and where a private placement would be appropriate. But to say categorically that a student must go to a dedicated SN school (by definition, not the least restrictive environment) instead of getting an aide that would allow success in the general education community (the least restrictive environment) is illegal.

Plus, not all kids need a dedicated aid because of behavior. Some might need one because of medical issues -- i.e. seizures or needing mobility assistance -- and going to a SN school instead of getting that aide would be inappropriate.[/quote]

But we are talking about getting an aide solely for behavior/elopement.  [b]Private SN placement instead of an aide isn't illegal if the behavior endangers the kid and others.[/b]  The school can argue that in these cases, the LRE is a school that has the type of security and personnel that can deal with these types of behaviors.  I don't know if pp and we are at the same charter but no one at our highly regarded charter has a dedicated aide.  Also, I was told by our charter that they would have no problem recommending us for private funding for SN school and we would not have had to go through due process if DS's behavior did not improve after the FBA.

Get the FBA.  Hopefully getting a behavior plan will stop the running.  If it does not, ask for the aide, maybe it's easier to get an aide in DCPS.[/quote]

Private school placement isn't illegal if that's the only way to keep the kid safe/educate the kid. But it is illegal if, categorically, that's the go to solution without trying other things, such as a dedicated aide. The fact that no one in your charter has a dedicated aide merely suggests that either 1) the charter has other mechanisms that discourage kids with significant disabilities from attending (more significant than your kid with extremely high functioning autism) or 2) that it illegally kicks kids out who might be successful if an aide was provided.[/quote]

More than 2 scenarios. Many DC Charter schools are new and no parents of kids with significant special needs (e.g. ones that might need an aide) may have applied or enrolled -- as a SN parent I would be wary of going to a new school, charter or not.

Or they have found other ways to manage kids with SN short of a dedicated aide.

Just saying there could be many other reasons why no child in a particular charter has a dedicated aide without assuming that the school is doing something illegal.

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DS attends an immersion language charter where prek3 and prek4 are all in Mandarin, no English, and K onwards is 50% English and 50% mandarin with kids switching language/classrooms every other day.  All the kids with IEPs are diagnosed once they start school since no parent who is aware that their child has SNs would pick this school for their child.  My kid with ASD/ADHD is about as severe as it gets.  No one at our school has ever gotten a dedicated aide.  Sp Ed teacher in the classroom, yes.  Dedicated aide, no.[/quote]

So if you want your kid with severe SN to get private placement, it seems that applying to Yu Ying would actually be a better way of getting it than to send your kid to DCPS and fight for it!  Very interesting. I'd love to know about other charters/LEAs that are very willing to do private placements like this.[/quote]

It does not work that way.  The school will try "everything" before recommending private placement, which means the kid will be at Yu Ying for at least a year or two.   My child started there in preK4 without behavior issues and he started having behavioral problems in 2nd grade.

The kids who are given placement at a SN school usually have been there for a few years.  Not sure why a parent would knowingly send a child to a school that is a bad "fit" hoping to get private placement.  Also, it's very difficult to get in so they would be taking the place of another child where the school would be a good "fit".[/quote]

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