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Re: Principal/AP or SPED Director?
Posted by lm on 5/07/08

    If they need five years, no problem. However it is a social stigma
    for the students. They want to graduate with their cohort not come
    back and deal social stigma of taking five years to graduate. In
    reality they feel embassrass to come back to high school for a fifth
    year. Somebody tell me, outside of a serverly disabled student in an
    intensive program, how many students stay in high school until 21?

    On 5/06/08, lynne/ca wrote:
    > 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.
    >
    >
    > Everything is on a case-by-case basis and a balance between
    > providing too much support versus not providing
    > enough
    . (Both situations can indicate that we're lowering our
    > expectations too far: too much support means that we think the kid
    > can't do something on his own that he can do; too little
    > support often means that we are giving up on the student.)
    > Sometimes the fear of providing too much support causes us to
    > provide too little. And vice versa.
    > If the student's needs indicate five years, so be it! I'm not sure
    > why you see this as a negative thing. That extra year can make a
    > world of difference to a student who has worked hard but isn't
    > able to meet all the requirements in four years. We've even had a
    > few students without special education needs come back for
    > a fifth year, and as Bob mentioned, students with special
    > education needs have a legal right to a free public education
    > until age 22.

     
     

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