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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]We do know that the school sent the decline to enroll in February, which is too late to transfer elsewhere[/quote]

I am in full agreement that they should have let the family know of the decline earlier, so that they could apply to privates specializing in kids with disabilities, if private is what they wanted.  However, it is not accurate to say it was "too late to transfer elsewhere."  Public school, which the vast majority of children in the US attend, and is legally required to provide accommodations, is always an option.[/quote]

Oh come on. In order to get accommodations in public school districts, you need an IEP. And those take months and months, and usually by February are done for services for the following year. The PP was correctly summarizing the situation. [/quote]

100% nonsense. You clearly have no understanding of the law. Schools can't just say "Welp, we're done providing services this year." That's not at all how it works. [/quote]

You are wildly ignorant of reality. I’m not even sure where to start with this. It’s like you are reading some sort of school propaganda and ignorant of how the actual system works. [/quote]

My child has an IEP in a public school. Where in the world did you get the idea that there's a cutoff in the school year to get evaluated for an IEP? You can start the process at any time. The district needs to respond within 45 days by law. You cannot be denied an evaluation regardless of the time of year.[/quote]

I have multiple kids with IEPs in public and private, now in high school and college. I have been through the wringer as far as advocating for services. You are talking about the idealistic theory under the law, I am talking about the real world. Yes, of course you can start the process any time. And yes, of course the school has to respond in 45 days. That theory is all correct.

But the reality is that it is much harder to get services if there is no IEP in place for a new student coming in, especially if there is no recent neuropsych report. Also, school districts by February have assessed their staffing needs for the following year. That means that totally new students, sure, yes they can request. Anyone can request anything. But it is harder, in many districts, to get a full evaluation with services towards the end of the school year. The “reserve” districts have for staffing will be prioritized to those more extreme students, which there is no indication this child was.

The fact remains that if this child was only formally told that he would not be re-enrolled in February after years of waffling, the school acted unconscionably. 
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The private had them do a neuropsych per the article.  It didn't say if it had been updated but the school in ES started telling these parents it wasn't a good fit and child should be moved to a school that would better meet his needs.    They were probably worried about getting sued or parents going to the media.  To expect a private to help for that level of dyslexia and ADD is not reasonable.[/quote]

The private had them do a neuropsych in early elementary. That is never going to work for high school services in public, unless there was a recent updated neuropsych, which seems unlikely (the reporter would have mentioned it). So this is a kid with no recent neuropsych, told in February that he couldn’t come back the next year, thus ensuring the child missed all other private school deadlines including for SN schools. It is unconscionable. [/quote]

The school per the article tried to get the parents to change schools multiple occasions and the parents refused and insisted this child continue.[/quote]

The parents were looking out for the best interests of the child. A child who had no behavioral problems, was not failing and was not hurting anybody. In theory, the school should have been looking out for the child’s best interests also. Are we really paying $50K so children can serve wealthy, well-endowed schools and their administrators?[/quote]

How were they looking out for the best interest of the child by keeping him in a school that couldn’t meet his needs?[/quote]

I mean the question is what are his needs and what is the goal? It sounds like this student may never win a writing contest or go into a field where that skill set is necessary. But many students without disabilities are mediocre writers whose strengths are in STEM or art or athletics. His family wasn’t asking the school to work magic, it was asking them to value his strengths and contributions. [/quote]

Sounds like the parents just wanted to have the kid be kept at the school until he turns 18, no interest really on if he was learning anything. [/quote]

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