Keeping Students with Disabilities Safe from Bullying

[Momcat]

http://www.ed.gov/blog/2013/08/keeping-students-with-disabilities-safe-from-bullying/

[Momcat]

This is a very important article and includes a link to a Dear Colleague Letter from OSERS.

Key items: students must feel safe in order to benefit from FAPE, and changing their placement to protect them from bullies is not LRE.

This stuff is gold for students with LTFA!

[CMdeux]

Wow-- that is amazing stuff, Momcat.  THANK YOU.   

[ajasfolks2]

Have been saying this for years to school staff and admin . . . often to deaf ears.  Nice to see it in print at this website!

A school where children don't feel safe is a school where children struggle to learn. Every student deserves to thrive in a safe school and classroom free from bullying.

[Momcat]

www.specialeducationadvisor.com/bullying-is-never-okay-how-to-use-a-gebser-letter/