Can you please show me some peer-reviewed studies demonstrating that private schools trample the civil rights of their students? And that so many of us private school parents are putting considerable pressure on our kids' schools to keep out kids who are "troublesome, different, [or] what have you?"
The legal protections I am referring to (the "free appropriate public education" guaranteed by IDEA) do not apply to private schools. These schools are not required to make the same accommodations for people with disabilities as public schools are. These schools have a choice, and many of them choose not to offer services and supports such as aides, PT, OT, speech, as well as many subtler forms of accommodation. This is not a matter of "trampling" on anything; it is a matter of what rules apply to those schools, and the choices their administrators make. This is not necessarily an instance of "meanness"; it's undoubtedly a decision about resources and clientele and a host of different variables. Running any school is complicated.
Or are you just allowed to make unsupported claims because you believe them?
Sorry I offended you; obviously, I am not talking about all private school parents or all private schools everywhere.
However, in my extensive school-shopping in my region and in my wide-ranging correspondence with other people who face the same issues in educating their 2E/AS kids that I face with mine, this is noted as a frequently occurring situation. Prestigious private schools routinely decline to admit kids like mine, or they expel them when the going gets rough. (I can add that therapeutic private schools often don't know what to do with the 2E, either, leaving few options.)
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