{"id":14139,"date":"2015-10-15T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=13080"},"modified":"2015-10-15T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:00:30","slug":"hot-topics-quick-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/hot-topics-quick-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Topics: Quick Picks"},"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=\"Hot%20Topics%3A%20Quick%20Picks\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0px solid #000000; float: right; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/istock\/basketball.wheelchair.jpg\" alt=\"student with basketball in a wheelchair\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>My Child Needs PE. May I request that the school put at least 10 minutes a day of physical activity for my child on his IEP?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If your child has a disability and an IEP, the school must provide physical education as part of your child&#8217;s special education program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Read IDEA requirements for specially designed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/pe.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Physical Education and Adapted Physical Education (APE)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do I Have a Right to Observe My Child&#8217;s Classroom?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I want to observe the class before agreeing (or not agreeing) to a placement for my child? The special ed director said I cannot observe the class because of confidentiality issues with the other children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> In <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/priv.confid.observe.htm\">Parent Observations v. Student Confidentiality<\/a><\/span>, Pete and Pam offer strategies to deal with administrators who take positions that are not based on law, or common sense.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>My Child&#8217;s Teacher Does Not Know Him &#8211; What Can I Do?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> If the teacher does not know your child \u2013 then what?\u00a0 You need to get to know your child\u2019s teacher. Advocate Pat Howey explains how you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=8208\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">jump in as your child&#8217;s &#8220;case manager.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out what parents want teachers to understand about their children. Learn what IDEA says about more support and training for teachers.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Placement decisions &#8211; who makes them? Are parents involved?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What can parents do, what can we not do, who has a say in placement, and what happens if we disagree with the school?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> IDEA 2004 says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=394\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">parents must be involved in placement decisions<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If I refuse consent for a new intervention program, can the school terminate my son\u2019s IEP?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can allow the school to implement parts of the IEP. The school may not draw a line in the sand, or force you to accept the IEP \u201call or nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Implementing part of an IEP in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=1309\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Can I Revoke Consent for a Service in the IEP<\/span><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Child Needs PE. May I request that the school put at least 10 minutes a day of physical activity for my child on his IEP? If your child has <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/hot-topics-quick-picks\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3,529,122],"tags":[451,815,197,1324,287,785,1317,87],"class_list":["post-14139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-parent-rights-responsibilities","category-placement","tag-adapted-pe","tag-adapted-physical-education","tag-classroom-observations","tag-confidentiality","tag-parental-consent","tag-pe","tag-placement","tag-privacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}