What requirements does a child need to meet before the school should be providing para support in math or accommodations in the IEP? What accommodations are available to a child?
We spent the first quarter of school attempting to have math support and accommodations put in our child's IEP. The school denied it, the reason they say is because they don't do title one (which she use to be in, but aren't providing it anymore due to her being in 7th grade) and that her grades and scores don't indicate she needs assistance (they refused to put in their comment they made at the meeting of not being able to provide incidental para support -- which they made in the IEP meeting but refused to write in the pwn. I do have this documented in an email of what they told us and they never actually replied back in an email saying that was incorrect and not what they said). Her grades at that point were consistently holding at "D" or "D+". Test scores were around 37-60%. Last year she was c- consistently and same for tests scores. They refused to acknowledge those when shown. Again saying her scores do not reflect needing help. Even as her MCA test said she was not meeting Grade level (they said she didn't put enough effort in it and that's why it was poor). Her neurolopsychologist has documented that due to her disability and executive function concerns she is going to be falling more behind as it gets harder and should have accommodations put in place to help keep her close to level as her peers. The school was given that information also.
Now though her math grade has been an "F"" this 2nd quarter. Does she need to be failing for a certain time before we can ask them for help for her again? I'm afraid they are going to say that or refuse for another reason such as she's not putting in enough effort. Even though she literally is struggling as the math assignments get harder. The two tests done this quarter were 69 and 37 percent. She tried retaking the test and correcting the wrong ones (as all kids are able to in her class), she only got a 43% on the retake and rounded average test scores show 54%.
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What requirements does a child need to meet before the school should be providing para support in math or accommodations in the IEP? What accommodations are available to a child?
We spent the first quarter of school attempting to have math support and accommodations put in our child's IEP. The school denied it, the reason they say is because they don't do title one (which she use to be in, but aren't providing it anymore due to her being in 7th grade) and that her grades and scores don't indicate she needs assistance (they refused to put in their comment they made at the meeting of not being able to provide incidental para support -- which they made in the IEP meeting but refused to write in the pwn. I do have this documented in an email of what they told us and they never actually replied back in an email saying that was incorrect and not what they said). Her grades at that point were consistently holding at "D" or "D+". Test scores were around 37-60%. Last year she was c- consistently and same for tests scores. They refused to acknowledge those when shown. Again saying her scores do not reflect needing help. Even as her MCA test said she was not meeting Grade level (they said she didn't put enough effort in it and that's why it was poor). Her neurolopsychologist has documented that due to her disability and executive function concerns she is going to be falling more behind as it gets harder and should have accommodations put in place to help keep her close to level as her peers. The school was given that information also.
Now though her math grade has been an "F"" this 2nd quarter. Does she need to be failing for a certain time before we can ask them for help for her again? I'm afraid they are going to say that or refuse for another reason such as she's not putting in enough effort. Even though she literally is struggling as the math assignments get harder. The two tests done this quarter were 69 and 37 percent. She tried retaking the test and correcting the wrong ones (as all kids are able to in her class), she only got a 43% on the retake and rounded average test scores show 54%.
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