{"id":15679,"date":"2016-04-04T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=15679"},"modified":"2016-04-04T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:17:51","slug":"shortened-school-day-without-504-or-iep-no-fape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/shortened-school-day-without-504-or-iep-no-fape\/","title":{"rendered":"Eligibility: SHORTENED SCHOOL DAY WITHOUT 504 or IEP, NO FAPE?"},"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=\"Eligibility%3A%20SHORTENED%20SCHOOL%20DAY%20WITHOUT%20504%20or%20IEP%2C%20NO%20FAPE%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Elizabeth:\u00a0 A school shortened a student&#8217;s school day to five hours, with the first two hours spent calming down doing art for a student with anxiety. (Student was therefore only getting 3 hours of instruction of which, school allows the student to leave class whenever she needs to due to anxiety and wear ear buds to listen to music or text her mom during class time due to anxiety.) When the school was asked for a formal 504\/IEP evaluation, the school stated, the student &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t qualify for either of those and it wouldn&#8217;t change anything because we are already giving her all the accommodations we can, plus we can get in trouble legally for giving her a shortened school day.&#8221; Obviously, we are aware the school is in the wrong and needs to formally evaluate the student to determine if she qualifies for a 504 or IEP; however, what steps can be taken in regards for their already, knowingly inappropriate actions short of a state complaint? Can anything be done to ensure the student&#8217;s needs are met within a normal length school day as well as recommendations for all the hours she has missed due to this informal arrangement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth:\u00a0 A school shortened a student&#8217;s school day to five hours, with the first two hours spent calming down doing art for a student with anxiety. (Student was therefore only <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/shortened-school-day-without-504-or-iep-no-fape\/\">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-15679","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\/15679","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=15679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15681,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679\/revisions\/15681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}