{"id":15907,"date":"2019-06-10T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=15907"},"modified":"2019-06-12T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:04:52","slug":"are-social-work-hours-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/are-social-work-hours-mandatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Related Services: ARE SOCIAL WORK HOURS MANDATORY?"},"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=\"Related%20Services%3A%20ARE%20SOCIAL%20WORK%20HOURS%20MANDATORY%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Vince: We had my child&#8217;s IEP meeting a few days ago, and we were told that he had to have social work and group therapy at the school because of the nature of his eligibility determination. My wife and I strongly do not want him to receive therapy at school.<\/p>\n<p>Our son already is in weekly counseling that we pay for privately (and which we have not asked the school to reimburse). We do not want him removed from the classroom to spend time with the school&#8217;s social worker, who is an unimpressive figure that our son views with contempt. More importantly, perhaps, our son is highly resistant to therapy and the more time that he spends in it, the more resistant he gets. Quite simply, we feel that imposing this mandatory social work time on him will harm him, not help him. Yet the district&#8217;s attorney was there and said it was mandatory, and the rest of the IEP team went along.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know if what that lawyer said was correct?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince: We had my child&#8217;s IEP meeting a few days ago, and we were told that he had to have social work and group therapy at the school because of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/are-social-work-hours-mandatory\/\">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":[1343],"class_list":["post-15907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-r"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907","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=15907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15916,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907\/revisions\/15916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}