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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP if it’s any consolation, my 10th ADHD grader has had a 504 since first grade and none of his HS teachers actually follow anything listed.   Every time this comes up he is blamed for not asking for his accommodations.  [/quote]

This is not legal. You and your son asked for 504 accommodations at the 504 table.  He does not also have to ask for them in front of his classmates in the classroom each time he wants to use them.

Most students need help from parents to learn how to politely remind teachers about their accommodations.  There is a power dynamic in the classroom that makes it difficult and scary to do this, but 504 plans are a legal obligation the school must meet. The teacher must comply with the plan.

Please support your DC by helping him draft an email to his teacher stating that he wants to regularly receive his accommodation. For example, if he has testing accommodations, he should email that he has a 504 plan with extra time (plus whatever other accoms - small group, use of computer or calculator, test on paper, etc.) and offer a time when he can finish the extra time on the test - at lunch, after school, before school, during the next class or another class, etc.

Your DC should CC you on the email.

If the teacher declines to provide the accommodation, you can help by forwarding the refusal to comply with the 504 plan to the principal, ccing the teacher and your DC, and writing short, polite note informing him/her that the school is "out of compliance" with the 504 and asking that the principal provide the teacher with the necessary professional support to "bring the school back into compliance so that I do not have to resort to due process options."

Section 504, together with IDEA and the ADA protect kid's civil right to access and benefit from an important public good - free public education. Students are our nation's most important human capital investment - an investment made in order to create people who can make their greatest and best contribution to our future society.  We all loose out when that doesn't happen. Please help your child see that he is worth demanding his civil rights so that he can develop his future.  Helping him learn to self-advocate in this way is important for college and the workplace, where he will also have rights to class & campus accommodation and will develop those with the college disability office.

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PP here.  Thanks for this.  We are working on many of these things.  I know teachers are overworked and wonder how many kids have plans at his school.

The 50% rule was hiding some of my child’s issues unfortunately.  Getting a zero now for an assignment a teacher won’t let him turn in late (even though in the plan) completely tanks his grade. [/quote]

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