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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are common 504 accommodations in high school? We had a 504 in elementary and then switched to private where like a previous poster he’s just given extra time as needed, more flexibility with turning things in, and it’s a very small environment, etc. He also can tell a teacher when he has spent more than an hour on a subject of homework and he’s done.

In a year he will go back to public high school and I’m trying to figure out what we will need in place. I think for sure preferential seating and more time for tests because he already had that in elementary school. He also got breaks in elementary school—what does that look like in high school? Do they offer accommodations for homework or not? [/quote]

HS teacher here and preferential seating is common, but that looks different for every student and every classroom.  Breaks can be anything from a a trip to the bathroom or just not doing work and putting the assignment down for 5 min. Unfortunately this is one of the most abused accommodations of my students to wander the halls and skip and a “break” turns into them being gone for 20 min.   We often have to meet again and say they can’t leave the room, unless it’s to actually use the bathroom.

As for telling the teacher times up after an hour, no, that’s not done in HS. Homework isn’t assigned by time anymore.  You need to get an assignment done.  It’s either studying to learn for a test, the lab write up, math problems, paper, etc.

It’s not as easy as asking for reduced assignments either.  You can’t change the 5 page paper into a 3 page paper or the 10 math problems into 5.  Your kid will be missing content.  [/quote]

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