A note on the 504/IEP process and what happens to students in the meantime: schools must provide students with legal disabilities protections as soon as there is reason to suspect a disability. This means that, legally, the school should not be able to drop her from the program for criteria that are disability-related, if you can document that the school was already aware that there was a suspected disability (i.e., the 504 eligibility process had already started). Even if they have not yet reached the point of making an eligibility determination one way or the other.
In your situation, documentation that there is a suspected disability, with suspected educational impacts of the sort that would affect her math performance in the way it currently is, would support keeping her in her current placement without punitive consequences (keep the grades open, IOW) until the team makes a decision about the need for accommodations.
Since the school already knows there is a suspected disability, the school cannot punish her (academically or behaviorally) for behavior/performance that is suspected to be a result of her disability.
The school may not know that, though.
Very useful information. thank you
