Update, met with the school district's head of special needs education

[maeve]

A "policy" one day may be gone the next.  Get everything you need to keep your child safe in writing!

Yep, administrators change often and policies, or "guidelines" (especially) can always chaange. But the 504 stays with the child and is based on the child's specific needs.

This is so true.  Most often things about what go on in a school are principal-centered so even in the same school district, you can have different "policies."  And then within schools, the management of a classroom is up to a teacher, so you can have different policies within the same grade level depending on the teacher.  That's why a 504 is so important.  The precautions taken to keep a child safe cannot change because of personnel changes.

[rainbow]

Also, my principal likes to remind me often that "guidelines" are subject to change and interpretation - they are *not* policy (which is more formal and based on state laws/regulations).  And if you take note, most districts will have these "policies" labeled as guidelines. 

Even more reason 504 is necessary since it is based on the individual. 

[maeve]

rainbow, exactly.  My county was the first in the area to adopt districtwide guidelines but there's still a lot of variance among schools and still a lot of food in the classroom.

[ajasfolks2]

. . . piling onto maeve's post . . . and still a

WHOLE LOT of NONCOMPLIANCE

due to "no teeth" to the "policies".


Wonder how it would be viewed if there was such "spotty" compliance to, say,

the no drug OR no weapons "policies".



Why is "compliance" voluntary so far as certain staffers . . . or cupcake queen PTO parents?



Just asking.