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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does "acute disability" mean? How unusual is it for a parent to attend classes with the child as part of an IEP? [/quote]

It probably means no one knows what the child’s disability is yet. I have a 6 year old who has been diagnosed with probably 8 different things by a variety of specialists over time. It’s very hard to tell what kids have when they are so young. It will become clear when he gets older what he has, but they know now that it’s severe and disrupts his ability to think and function in a classroom.[/quote]

The special education eligibility area of Significant Developmental Delay is often applicable for children who need support, but the diagnosis isn't clear yet. I do wonder if this child had an appropriate IEP.[/quote]

No there is no way he did because the entire situation violates a real IEP in a million ways. The parents had a DEAL with admin to try to work it out for some reason. [/quote]

+1. There are parents who refuse services for their children or refuse alternate placements. Sometimes they volunteer to come pick their kids up when they go into crisis, thereby avoiding suspensions or discipline referrals. The school doesn’t want to suspend too many kids with disabilities and the parents don’t want their kid to have 35 disciplinary referrals by the end of 1st grade. It’s largely impractical and sets the kid up for all kinds of problems later on, but allowing this kind of thing, or agreeing to let a parent be the 1:1 for their out of control kid, is a lot less work and expense for schools in the short term in many cases. Plus, it makes the admin look better.[/quote]

My suspicion is it’s one of two scenarios:

1. Student is Black and Assistant principal was trying to avoid any perception of criminalizing a Black student or facing accusations of racial animus and targeting.

2. Student is white but AP is Black and was scared parents would sue if she didn’t work with them to keep their child unidentified for sped.

Quite truly nothing else explains the AP’s choices to me. [/quote]

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