How do i drop an IEP?

Question

Im trying to return to, a regular high school, after being in an outside placement, and they keep throwing up roadblocks, saying i have an iep that wont let me return cause it has me placed somewhere else. I chose to go the the outside placement and wasnt forced, and i didnt like it there so im trying to go back. They gave me 2 options have a team meeting which most liekly they'll tell me i have to go to the other place or drop my IEP. I just want to drop the thing and get it over with, so i can go back to school with my friend like everyone else. I dont need any of the services, is there anything they can do to stop me from dropping the iep?

Answer 1

The school is not in violation if they tell you you cannot come their because your IEP says that you are placed elsewhere.  Your IEP is good for one year.  You would  have to have another IEP meeting for a change of placement, which in itself can be an intensive process, not just "you go here and that's it."  You said that the school gave you two options, one being to have a team meeting.  What was the other option.  And they may certainly suggest that you drop services if you/ your parents do not feel like you need them.  If you do not have the IEP anymore, and things start to go badly for you at school, you will not have any help this time.  

Answer 2

If you are under 18, you don't have the authority to drop it.  Your parent/ guardian would have to do that.  Usually you would have to have an IEP meeting (team meeting) in order to drop an IEP, anyway, since it is a legal document, which the school is accountable for following.  They are quite right that they can't just ignore it.  If your parents ask to exit you from Special Education services at a meeting, they will likely agree, unless you were extremely disruptive in school, or have very intense needs, in which case they may not feel it is a appropriate placement for you.

Answer 3

Yet ANOTHER stupid school violating FEDERAL LAW!!!

This school can NOT prevent you from attending for the reason they are stating.

If you are under 18 yrs, your parents will have to deal with all this, but you can be included in meetings and in making decisions.   Do your parents feel you dont' need the IEP? By law the decisions have to be up to them.

The first legal step IS to have an IEP team meeting, but there is a lot of thigns your parent can do if they feel the school is not doing things the right way.

They can't just say you can't return to the school and that's the end of it, your parents have LOTS of rights and protections that will help them in this.

If they learn the special ed laws and follow them, there is no way they can keep you out of that school.

If you or your parents need  help email me  [e-mail]

Answer 4

if you no longer need special education,, but still need some support, you may be able to discontnue the IEP and repalce it with a 504 plan--which will give you accommodations in your home school.

Answer 5

If you are adult enough to make decisions about your future - you are adult enough to go to a team meeting and advocate for yourself.  That way you can demonstrate your growth, and show what of your IEP goals you have achieved.  If your only purpose however is to back to be with your friends - you may not win that one.

You will prevail if you have had good attendence, worked your program, made progress in your academic and personal IEP goals.  If you were a slacker in the outside program - no one has any reason to believe you will be other than that in a regular school.  If you want out you need to demonstrate maturity.  So it's up to you and your parents if you are not over 18.

Answer 6

You can be included in the IEP meeting--and should be included along with the rest of the planning team.

But they also must consider what progress you have made and what services are required for additional progress.

This document (as with the rest of the special ed program) is federally required. The school cannot just decide based on a student's feelings.

This is because public schools are legally required to provide appropriate education for all identified students until they graduate high school.

Legally they can prohibit you from exiting special education services when the rest of the IEP team has sufficient evidence that you are making insufficient academic progress.

They would provide doccumentation that you still need these services explicitly to make sufficient academic progress.    

I too was in special education, I know that it can feel 'different' compared to some school peers without disabilities.

However, having received the academic services which I needed was what later enabled me to successfully complete college and then complete graduate school.

IEP meeting participation and involvement also came in very handy when filling out IRS forms---since I had grown up already familiar with reading bureaucratic jargon!