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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it common to have a plan under which parents must attend with their kid? I've never heard of this.[/quote]

I have never encountered this in more than 20 years of education.[/quote]

As a special ed lawyer I've seen schools ask for it occasionally, never as an official IEP requirement but something unofficial. We tend to push back on it (if a kid needs that level of support we're generally fighting for them to be placed in a different setting), but it's not unheard of.[/quote]

So most likely he needed to be in a specialized classroom and his parents were fighting that placement. [/quote]

Not necessarily. There are plenty of kids in general education classrooms with one to one aides. This tells me that the school knew the kid needed a one to one but was shirking its responsibility to provide it. [/quote]

Any kid with the potential to shoot someone at school doesn't belong in gen ed with a 1:1.  He or she belongs in a therapeutic school or a school within a psychiatric hold hospital.  But yes, the administration did not do their job in making sure there was someone with that child every second, if his parent could not or would not be there, until the child was placed in the appropriate environment (therapeutic or psych hospital tutoring).  My guess is this kid will now be placed at an inpatient facility for probably the next few years.  [/quote]

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