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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Original parent here. Thanks again for all the replies. Today they responded about the functional behavioral assessment. I've been told it takes 4 to 6 weeks to complete, which is why they want to wait until the fall to start the process. (There are only about 4 weeks left in our school year.) While I understand that, I feel like something needs to be done while that process works itself out.[/quote]

So sorry you are in this difficult situation.  What grade?  Ask for an IEP meeting and ask for at least another classroom aid which the school maybe more receptive to even if it is only semantics.   If he is "escaping", there needs to be more supervision and help in that classroom.

When my DS was in preK (we're at YY), DS had a classmate who threw furniture - before the school got the class another teacher, the kid's grandmother volunteered to sit in the classroom which helped.  Soon grandma was replaced with a Sp Ed teacher.

My son's classroom in preK4 had a ratio of 3:19, teacher, assistant, Sp Ed teacher.  K had 3:17.  1st and 2nd has 2:18, Sp Ed teacher who is a "floater" comes into the classroom.

You can increase the amount of hours of Sp Ed support for the rest of the year.  The school will have to have the Sp Ed teacher in the classroom to meet the hours in the IEP.

Getting the FBA done at the start of the year in the fall will work better bc the point of an FBA is to come up with a behavioral plan which may need to be tweaked depending on how well your DS responds.  Since the school year is only about 4 wks more, doing the FBA now may not help much and you may even have to do it again in the Fall.  Kids can change pretty quickly.

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