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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]There should be sped schools, the way they have AAP centers.[/quote]
Least Restrictive Environment be like: do I mean nothing to you?[/quote]

But what about the rights of the other students to learn? [/quote]

They are still learning… it may not be at the pace you want but that isn’t specified by law. Admin and teachers have to follow the law before the needs of the the other kids. Sorry, it is what it is. You should lobby for more flexibility for students to be transferred to other programs/schools; because now, it is virtually impossible to do that without SPED parents suing the district.[/quote]
+1 Hey, more opportunity to tell people about the law!!

Schools only must provide a “serviceable Chevrolet,” not a Cadillac, to afford a student a free appropriate public education (FAPE). The analogy is often associated with the seminal U.S. Supreme Court case known as Rowley, which said that public education requires only a “basic floor of opportunity,” not that schools “maximize” a child’s educational potential. The “Chevy vs. Cadillac” analogy was coined and used by lower courts after Rowley, and suggests that schools need only provide a bare minimum of services to afford a student FAPE.[/quote]

Only students in special Ed are afforded FAPE (free and appropriate public education). General Ed students are NOT. A general Ed student could have a different substitute teacher every day who does nothing with the students. A general Ed student could have a substitute math teacher who know nothing about math and shows movies every day and there is no recourse.  A general Ed student can be in a class that is evacuated every day and not learn a thing and there is nothing a parent can do. [/quote]

You are ridiculous. Your assumption that special ed students get better teachers is incorrect. Most school systems do everything they can for the top students and give special ed the least. Did you not realize special ed kids get the same crappy substitutes?. Special ed substitutes can be anybody. My kid was abused by a substitute who knew nothing about special ed. We get the same lousy teachers. My kid with an iep had the worst math teacher in hs. All of our kids were affected. [/quote]

No, no, no. Nowhere  am I saying sped students get better teachers. I am saying FAPE is a special education right not a general Ed one. A special Ed student who has awful subs has the right to call fir an IEP  meeting with the principal, the special Ed. Teacher, and a general Ed teacher to complain and ask for the situation to be rectified. If they are not satisfied they have procedural rights and can file a complaint and go to due process where a judge will decide. Nowhere is it written general Ed students have these rights.

General Ed parents keep posting their kids have rights too. In actuality they don’t. [/quote]

Anyone who doubts this, just look at the FCPS budget. Per capita spending on SPED students absolutely dwarfs spending on non-SPED students[/quote]that is mainly due to the students in self contained classrooms. The students who are mainstreamed cost much less per pupil.  [/quote]

and private placements. which ironically is what PPs are calling for. [/quote]

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