thank you AND a new question regarding early dismissals

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Thank you to all those who responded to my question regarding organic meats and

mercury free fish(not sure if there's such a thing!) I really appreciate you

all.

There's a new " little issue " brewing in my district regarding early dismissal.

Ben is working with a wonderful therapist this year (started this summer) and

the only way she can continue to work with him throughout the school year is to

pull him out a couple of times a week for early dismissal. I know this has been

done in our district and, in fact, two kids in Ben's own class have done this in

the past themselves. Of course, now that I'M asking to do this for the first

time--it's a problem!! The kind of feedback that I'm getting from

administration is that there are so many hours of special ed time that the

teacher is required to provide for each child and to remove the child on a

regular basis for anything other than medical reasons cannot be done...blah,

blah, blah, blah(I may have left out a " blah " --not sure) Have any of you had

experience with this type of thing? Are you pulling your kids out for

therapies, etc. without any problems? If anyone has any advice for me I'd

surely appreciate it!!(Sorry I'm so " needy " lately with all my questions!)

Believe me--I do not like having to have him pulled out of class on a regular

basis but what he does with this therapist is better than anything he does in

school. There are good aspects of his school program too so I wouldn't want to

homeschool either--also his therapist cannot give me those kinds of hours

either. Any help or suggestions is appreciated!

a

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a,

Although not for this reason, at one time we had our neurologist write a

prescription for ABA -- simply stating that ABA intervention therapy is a

needed treatment for the child. It seems to me that this would then make

the ABA pull-out a medical treatment, so it falls under the pull-out

criteria the school has already established.

SJM

thank you AND a new question regarding

early dismissals

Thank you to all those who responded to my question regarding organic meats

and mercury free fish(not sure if there's such a thing!) I really

appreciate you all.

There's a new " little issue " brewing in my district regarding early

dismissal. Ben is working with a wonderful therapist this year (started

this summer) and the only way she can continue to work with him throughout

the school year is to pull him out a couple of times a week for early

dismissal. I know this has been done in our district and, in fact, two kids

in Ben's own class have done this in the past themselves. Of course, now

that I'M asking to do this for the first time--it's a problem!! The kind of

feedback that I'm getting from administration is that there are so many

hours of special ed time that the teacher is required to provide for each

child and to remove the child on a regular basis for anything other than

medical reasons cannot be done...blah, blah, blah, blah(I may have left out

a " blah " --not sure) Have any of you had experience with this type of

thing? Are you pulling your kids out for therapies, etc. without any

problems? If anyone has any advice !

for me I'd surely appreciate it!!(Sorry I'm so " needy " lately with all my

questions!) Believe me--I do not like having to have him pulled out of

class on a regular basis but what he does with this therapist is better than

anything he does in school. There are good aspects of his school program

too so I wouldn't want to homeschool either--also his therapist cannot give

me those kinds of hours either. Any help or suggestions is appreciated!

a