{"id":22781,"date":"2018-11-29T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=22781"},"modified":"2018-11-29T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:47:06","slug":"can-i-ask-the-school-to-adjust-my-childs-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-i-ask-the-school-to-adjust-my-childs-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Ask the School to Adjust My Child&#8217;s Grades?"},"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=\"Can%20I%20Ask%20the%20School%20to%20Adjust%20My%20Child%27s%20Grades%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>My high school son\u2019s dyslexia is having a negative impact on his grades. This will affect his ability to get into college.<\/p>\n<p>The school is failing to provide appropriate remediation or accommodations. He spends hours on homework and gets As and Bs, but he fails tests because his IEP accommodations are not provided in class. He fails tests, then fails the class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/boy.stressed.redhead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Can I ask to have his grades adjusted? Can we require his grades be based on homework only?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No. You do not have the power nor is it in the law, that grades can be based on homework alone.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is the wrong question to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the North Carolina case of <span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/caselaw\/case_Brody_RO_decision.html\"><em><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Brody v. Dare County<\/span><\/em><\/a>.<\/span> The parent initially wanted accommodations and modifications because the child could not read upon entering high school.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>most important question<\/strong> was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>What will it take for my child to learn how to read?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>answer<\/strong> was Landmark School, a private special education school &#8211; ordered by the Hearing Officer and upheld by the Administrative Law Judge.<\/p>\n<p>So change the question. <strong><em>What will it take for your child to learn to read?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It might mean:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>intense daily tutoring<\/li>\n<li>a private school placement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, \u201cchanging grades\u201d is not the answer that will prepare your child for further education, employment, and independent living.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Purpose of IDEA 2004<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>20 U.S.C. Section 1400 (d)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(d) Purposes.<\/strong> The purposes of this title are &#8211;<br \/>\n(1)<br \/>\n(A) to ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education that emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their <strong>unique needs<\/strong> <strong>and prepare them for further education, employment, and independent living.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See page 48 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/selaw2.store.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/selaw2.store.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/selaw2.store.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/stranger\/brody.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">James Brody &#8211; Letter to the Stranger <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/stranger\/brody.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/stranger\/brody.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My high school son\u2019s dyslexia is having a negative impact on his grades. This will affect his ability to get into college. The school is failing to provide appropriate remediation <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-i-ask-the-school-to-adjust-my-childs-grades\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23422,"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":[50,33],"tags":[1308,478,363,1300],"class_list":["post-22781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dyslexia","category-reading","tag-dyslexia","tag-failing-grades","tag-grades","tag-reading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781","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=22781"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23608,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781\/revisions\/23608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}