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The main issue is that while colleges/universities will comply with
ADA requirements they will not provide anything close to what a
public K-12 school would be required to provide as part of a free and
appropriate education. Ive see university disability services files with
3 page IEP's and all the student got at the university was more time
to complete examinations, or a larger type/print test. The most
expensive accommodation a student is likely to get is an ASL
interpreter.
Professors will not hand hold a student.

On 1/11/15, Curious wrote:
> On 1/11/15, please explain wrote:
>> I am confused about why anyone would mix up being on an
> ARD
>> committee with being asked to give a recommendation to a
> private
>> school? When a family approaches a private school, and I know
>> this because I have investigated many private schools for my
>> child, most private schools provide a application packet which
>> includes a recommendation form to be filled out by the
> teachers
>> of major courses. The parent then passes these out to the
>> current teachers. It is likely that the parents want a
>> particular teacher to follow through with sending it in because
>> the parents perceive that teacher to have a positive
>> relationship with the student and they foresee that teacher
>> making positive comments. The recommendation form
> specifically
>> asks that it be sent to the private school directly. As a
>> teacher in public, I have filled out many of these forms and I
>> was truthful. I sent it in a sealed envelope to the school.
>> This has nothing to do with legal obligations as an ARD
> member.
>> The recommendation forms that I have filled out merely ask if
>> the student receives any special services: yes or no. Those
>> forms do not ask for any delicate information. Please explain
>> why being on an ARD committee or not being on one would
> matter
>> in this case.
>>
>>
>> On 1/10/15, my 2 wrote:
>>> A recommendation for private school goes in a sealed
> envelope,
>>> mailed by the teacher, to the private school. At that point,
>>> it is not revealed to the parents. I don't get what the issue
>>> is. A person can refuse to give a recommendation. The
>>> private school will use other items such as test scores on
>>> tests that they give, and in my son's case, an interview that
>>> was extensive. I would not worry that the school will accept
>>> this student. There is one caveat. If the private school
>>> wants to accept this student because they want the parents'
>>> money, then they will do so no matter what the
> recommendation
>>> says anyway, which might be the case. If that is the case, so
>>> what?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/10/15, Curious wrote:
>>>> A person in my department is being pressured by the
> family
>>> of a SpEd student
>>>> to give a recommendation for an elite professional school.
>>> This student has
>>>> been provided with an enormous amount of support and
> her
>>> IEP's water down
>>>> even some of the basic skills and principles of the classes
>>> involved. Sadly, the
>>>> administration is terrified of the parents because one is a
>>> well connected
>>>> lawyer.
>>>>
>>>> This student, who I have also had in class, has a low IQ, is
>>> limited in every
>>>> aspect of reading, writing and speaking. In addition the
>>> student has other
>>>> disorders which her parents have taken pains to avoid
>>> revealing to the student
>>>> who is now nearly 18. The parents have basically
> demanded
>>> every kind of
>>>> implementation available, to the point of even threatening
>>> standardized
>>>> testing organizations if they don't allow the student to
>>> exercise all of the IEP
>>>> demands that include extended time, access to dictionary
> and
>>> more. They
>>>> didn't ask me for a recommendation because I was very
>>> straightforward about
>>>> this student's abilities. The teacher in my department is a
>>> very sweet lady who
>>>> is dealing with a number of personal issues and the family
>>> and administration
>>>> are using this opportunity to bully her into a
>>> recommendation. So LEGALLY,
>>>> can the administration force the teacher to do this?
>
> We are talking about a college level education facility, not a
> private training school. As for the ARD committee, this is not
> being driven by the ARD committee, but by the parents and by
> the administration in an attempt to placate them. They want the
> teacher to assure the college that the student is capable of doing
> the work, which the student is not. We have had students at the
> college before and are well aware of the expectations. Having
> had the student previously, I know that the parents believe the
> student is capable of regular ed work. They are asking the
> teacher to lie.

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