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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are letting your daughter off too easily. She knew she wasn't supposed to use that calculator which is why she showed it to the teacher. She just expected she would get special treatment and that the rules did not apply to her. Hmm wonder why that is?[/quote]

OP here again. Yes, DD is in a private middle school, but she was in public elementary school (where we had the IEP) and will be in public high school next year. I had no idea IEPs do not apply in private schools. That makes no sense to me. Isn't an IEP part of a Federal program? My neighbor had a kid in private who had an IEP. It never occurred to me that an IEP didn't apply to private.

To respond to the above poster, yes, on the surface, it looks like DD did what you said, but it's not that cut and dried. I think the principal sees this incident as you do. I know DD was not trying to cheat. She was unable to find her calculator. She thought (right or wrong) that if she didn't use the functions she was not allowed to use, it would be OK. She thinks very literally, and her reasoning can be a little convoluted. This is something I understand because I know her. But to someone who doesn't know her, like the principal, it looks like DD was thinking that the rules didn't apply to her. But if you have a LD child with my DD's issues, you will understand that my DD does not think that way. All the students had to show their calculators to the teacher at the end of the test (why the end, rather than the beginning, I don't know).

She knows she made a poor decision, we've gone over that, and she does understand that she ought to have told her teacher at the beginning of the test that she didn't have the right calculator. I agree there should be consequences for my daughter, but these should help, not hurt her.

My concern is that bringing my SN daughter before a panel of her peers is not an appropriate way of dealing with this infraction because of who my daughter is, her issues and needs. It will harm her irreparably, cause her to break down in front of her peers, humiliate, embarrass and damage her psychologically. As a PP noted, the scars  will remain long after the cheating incident is forgotten. [/quote]

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