Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Fighting for Accommodations: A Parent's Struggle with the School Systems #parentingchallenges

12 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston describes fighting her school to recognize her child's disability and provide an IEP. After encountering pushback and what she saw as retaliation from staff, she decided to homeschool instead.

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And say, hey, there is an issue with my child. I suspect a disability and I need your help helping her. I still got pushback. Like, I was nice. I took all of the steps. I went up the chain of command. I did everything that you're supposed to do because I know that a lot of school systems are extremely defensive and want to argue. So I took all the steps. Mm-hmm. And it took forever and it ended up leading me to homeschool my kids. I still was able to get them on an IEP before we did that, but it was a huge fight and the school system started taking it out on my kid. Like there was a definite kind of like frustration that like when they had to do an accommodation for her. So I have a problem with that, like, and I'll say this to every educator.