504 plan and denied honors class accommodations

annamom
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 04:58:28 +0000

@rockhoundmom I am sorry that it happened to your DD. I agreed with @techmom99 that ADA may not help you. However, if you want to pursuit, I suggest you look into 504, I think the school is supposed to provide reasonable accommodation so that your DD can access the curriculum as adequately as her non-disabled peers.

IMO, just because the teacher decided the criterion it does not mean that it is not discriminatory… I assumed, once upon a time, someone decided that the criteria that one had to be white in order to sit in the front of a bus.(please excuse my recollection of the history)

Do you have the teacher’s recommendation that regular class has to accommodate and honor does not? If not, ask for a copy of the policy in writing… if you were to look into the USOSEP letter they referred to, you will see that Honor and AP classes are regular classes, hence they cannot say they only accommodate in regular classes but not Honor…

If it were me, I would ask for the curriculum for both classes, call for a meeting and ask for what a typical day in the honor class look like and the type of homework so as to identify what accommodations are needed.
If I were to file a complaint, I would ask for a copy of their policy and criteria for attending the class in writing…I will look into how they can exclude a group of students solely because of their disabilities.