Schools Behaving Badly
Many school districts work with students with disabilities. Sometimes that can be challenging. However, in Palm Beach it has gone from bad to worse for a certain school district.
Palm Beach county students with documented behavioral or emotional disabilities are not getting the academic or emotional services they need and are instead being unfairly punished for behaviors that are due to their disabilities, according to a complaint submitted today to the State Department of Education. The complaint was filed on behalf of four county students and the Florida State Conference of the NAACP by the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, the Southern Legal Counsel and the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights advocacy group.
For more information, see the following website:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/10/01/1001complaint.html
Another area where schools tend to make mistakes commonly is inclusion, mainstreaming and LRE.
The most current language of the federal mandate concerning inclusive education comes from the 1997 Amendments to the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). These federal regulations include rulings that guide the regulation. The IDEA requires that children with disabilities be educated in regular education classrooms unless "the nature and severity of the disability is such that education in the regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily." This means that schools have a duty to try to include students with disabilities in the regular general education classes. The following website has information about LRE as well as information about several interesting cases that deal with inclusion.
http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/legal/
Many new court cases deal with items such as autism and private school compensation. The follow case deals with both. The parents of a preschool student with autism reject and IEP and then ask for tutition reimbursement.
https://www.judicialview.com/Court-Cases/Education/Parents-Need-Not-Accept-IEP-Services-Before-Seeking-Reimbursement/Student-May-Reject-IEP-and-Obtain-Outisde-Services/20/3312
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I am still confused about rights to reinbursement. I am understand that in most cases it depends on the IEP. Is this correct? Help me out here.
ReplyDeleteThese websites are great because they provide real cases to help someone connect themselves with the issue or understand how to handle. These issues are real and need to be deal with in the correct manner. Inclusion is becoming the norm in our education system and should be understood by all how to go about it the correct way.
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