{"id":14070,"date":"2019-12-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/new\/?p=14070"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T15:33:37","slug":"evaluations-initial-evaluation-and-18-yr-old-student-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/evaluations-initial-evaluation-and-18-yr-old-student-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluations: INITIAL EVALUATION AND 18 YR OLD STUDENT RIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Evaluations%3A%20INITIAL%20EVALUATION%20AND%2018%20YR%20OLD%20STUDENT%20RIGHTS\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Patrick:&nbsp; Question from the school end: We have an 18 year old student in our district whose separated parents have joint custody. Student was declassified several years ago (It was at least two years ago, and my understanding is both parties consented), but one parent has recently requested an initial evaluation. As an 18 year old general education student, is the student able to refuse either testing or the evaluation in its entirety (Colorado age of majority is 18)? I\u2019m not really hoping for one particular outcome, I just want to make sure the student\u2019s rights are upheld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick:&nbsp; Question from the school end: We have an 18 year old student in our district whose separated parents have joint custody. Student was declassified several years ago (It was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/evaluations-initial-evaluation-and-18-yr-old-student-rights\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1348],"class_list":["post-14070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-e"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24296,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070\/revisions\/24296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}