Thursday, January 22, 2015
Cedar Rapids
The journal prompt for this week to post on your blog is: Share with your group which side of the Cedar Rapids case you agree with (the parents or the school) and why. Please try and incorporate evidence from other things we have discussed in class or you have learned through home study. In order to show me you have completed the assignment, each of you should send me the URL of your blog through the I-Learn assignment.
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I can see and understand both sides of this case, however, I agree more with the school than with the parents. I understand that the parents want their child to attend school and that in order to do so, a nurse must be provided to help their child. However, it is not the responsibility of the school, which is a place of academics, to provide medical care for its students. A school is build to provide academic training to students and to help them succeed in the intellectual world. In my opinion, they are not required to provide a service that is not within their realm of expertise. In the IDEA law, it states that the school is only required to perform related services to its students to help them academically learn. That was being done for Garrett. Medical services are not related services. They fall under a different category.
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I am going to have to agree with Deborah on this one. Yes Garret's situation was very heart wrenching and him and his family has suffered tremendously, but when it comes to the difference between related and medical services, Garret's is definitely medical. The school was indeed providing for him everything that they could ACADEMICALLY. Because the parents ran out of money they had to turn somewhere to find it, and it is not the schools responsibility. The school neither has the funds nor the extra to hands to provide for one student and neglect all the others.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I agree with the parents. Just because Garrett was paralyzed from the neck down, it didn't mean that his mind was paralyzed too. Since he was still capable of learning at the same level as the other kids, he should have been allowed to have medical services at the school. There is always a first time for everything and if Garrett was to be one of the first kids to have medical services of this magnitude provided by the school, then so be it. According to IDEA, no child with disabilities should not be allowed to attend school regardless of their disabilities or the severities. The thought of Garrett not being allowed medical services through the school or being allowed to go to school because of his disability just doesn't seem right. It sounds against IDEA.
ReplyDeleteWhat role does the regular education teacher have in the development and implementation of an IEP?
DeleteFrom our mock IEP yesterday, I had the sense that the regular education teacher plays a crucial role in the development and implementation of an IEP. The regular education teacher notices the student is struggling usually before and other teacher because they are the one who first has the student in their class. Secondly, the regular education teacher has all of the data. They have all the classroom work in all the subjects that the student has done thus far before the IEP so they are the ones that can show factually what the students strengths are and also the areas where the student is struggling as well.
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