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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP needs to explain what these behavioral problems are that the school is mentioning. If your child is bitting and hitting people everyday, in the classroom,  they I think it is fair to not have her ride the bus. Not saying this is your child, but we need more info on these behavioral problems [/quote]

No. They can’t exclude a disabled child from a school field trip regardless of the child’s disability. They can’t require a parent attend.[/quote]

They cannot exclude her from the field trip, but they can work out alternative transportation if it’s more appropriate to her behavioral issues. They cannot require that OP drive her daughter or that OP attend (unless all students have to have a parent chaperone regardless of any special needs), but they can choose to do something like provide a staffed van as alternative transportation for students they believe shouldn’t be on the main bus. It sounds like OP wouldn’t be willing to accept that, though. It’s the charter bus or nothing.[/quote]

Where are you hearing that the OP would not accept alternate transportation? The offer was a parent drive or nothing. That is illegal. Period.[/quote]

See the first post where OP says she wants her daughter to ride on the main bus with everyone else because she thinks being on a charter bus is part of the experience, the kids are talking about what movies they’re going to watch during the ride, and she doesn’t want her daughter to feel different if she can’t ride with the rest of them.[/quote]

NP. Please, PP, stop putting words into OP's mouth. Of course OP is talking about her daughter participating in the fun part of the field trip. What parent wouldn't be? And if you read carefully OP's concern seems to be that they want her to drive, which she does not feel able to do.

OP, do not tell this poster anything about your daughter's behaviors. It's none of their business. Even if your daughter had behaviors which could interfere with the bus, which I doubt, it is the school's responsibility to make a plan for accommodating her and inform you of the plan. Not to shrug their shoulders and say "Oh well, she can't ride the bus so....."[/quote]

I realize you can’t fully track which posts are and are not mine here. But first, I have no interest in attacking OP’s daughter for her needs. I am also a parent of a child with SN, not some parent who has no clue what it’s about coming in to bash people. I asked once about OP’s daughters needs in the context of helping her figure out a specific approach with the school (because aren’t we all tired of battling with our schools?) but when OP declined to respond I dropped it other than to note that since we don’t know the nature of her daughter’s needs, none of us should make assumptions either way about what is and is not appropriate.

Further, I have stated repeatedly in my posts that the school is wrong here. They cannot put the burden on OP of providing transportation, nor can they require her to chaperone unless all of the participating students, regardless of any special needs, are required to have a parent with them to participate. But that doesn’t mean the school can’t have legitimate concerns that need to be addressed. Perhaps she doesn’t, but again, we don’t know that. If she does, though, OP may need to accept a compromise solution, such as having her daughter (and perhaps some other children she knows from her program) ride in a separate shuttle van.

I would love for my son to be able to participate in all activities the same way typical children do. For many things he can, but for some he cannot and I have come to terms with that. And when it’s an activity that’s not appropriate for him to participate in the way everyone else does, we figure something out because it doesn’t do my son any good to put him in an inappropriate situation he’s not equipped to handle. It’s not even about how it affects other people, but rather how it affects my son when things go south because more was expected of him than he was capable of.[/quote]

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