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| Speaking Of Touring A School
Yes, that's unfortunately the problem. If you can get a lease to show, you can register your child in that District. Of course, this still does not mean you will automatically be able to tour any program you want. The IEP Team must make a serious recommendation for particular placements. OF course, sometimes it's possible to tour several placements ahead of time but generally not before your are a resident of the school district. Exactly what you are trying to do is why Districts want to avoid at all costs. Shopping around for the "best" district. GOod programs cost a lot of money, so that if anyone who wanted to access a good program moved into a district just in order to access that program, the district would no longer be able to afford to run that program. It's one of the flaws in the system.Most school district discourage this because, frankly, they don't WANT people with ASD kids moving in. That's because it costs so very much to educate our kids. Of course, each school district is different. Most, however, want to see proof of residency or at least proof that you are in contract for a home in their District. You don't have any legal right to tour a school, but you can always ask.We won't be buying. My DH works in that city (he patrols their halls along with his fellow officers) so we would be getting an apartment until our son reached kindergarten age.
Great, so I am just supposed to throw my child into another school and pray they know what they are doing? I am going to ask, but thanks for the heads up. It's ridiculous that we can't make sure our children are being taken care of. Can you tour a potential school's PPCD style classroom before placing your child if you are coming from another school's PPCD? We are, most likely, going to have to move to get our son into another school's PPCD. This one isn't going to cut it from what we are seeing. So, we have a few choices of schools. But we need to know BEFORE we move, if the classroom environment is going to benefit our son. We can't just move, go through the IEP process, hope it's a good class, wait to see, then find out we were wrong, only to up and move again. That's not OK for anyone in the family.
If we can, how do we set that up with the school? |
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