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Re: Principal/AP or SPED Director? Im
Posted by Bob/VA on 5/06/08

    Please describe those modifications and elaborate on how, as you
    say they increase costs.

    If a sped student takes 5 years to graduate that is the time it
    takes. Does birth to 22 ring any bells?

    Dependency on modifications - yes some will become dependent on
    them and may require some modifications beyond their high school
    years. There is a regular contributor to this forum who will
    attest, I believe, to the value of and benefit to individual
    students of those modifications. A good sped teacher (and they are
    legion) will recognize when it may be appropriate and of better
    service to the student to reduce the level of any given
    modification.

    I repeat - special ed directors and bldg level admins are fiscal
    gatekeepers. It really does seem, and numerous court decisions
    bear out, that failure to provide FAPE in the LRE is much more
    costly to districts than simply following the law.

    Sidebar: Lets save the FAPE and LRE discussion for another thread

    On 5/06/08, lm wrote:
    > Maybe we should just give every modification a parent wants,
    > forget about cost or the fact some of those supports may cause a
    > student to graduate in five years. I know an IEP team decides
    > the case, but I have sat in CSE's with parents requesting
    > modificatons for a junior student with an average of over 90.
    > Student had never received mods before but parents wanted them
    > for her finals. We denied her. If a kid deserves them, they
    > should receive them, but there is another side to the story, they
    > do cost money and if students become too dependent on them . . .
    > then what do we do?

     
     

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