{"id":9227,"date":"2013-06-27T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=9227"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:30:03","slug":"the-school-insists-we-medicate-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/the-school-insists-we-medicate-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"The School Insists We Medicate My Daughter!"},"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=\"The%20School%20Insists%20We%20Medicate%20My%20Daughter%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/bs\/girl.student.tired.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"195\" \/>My daughter has ADHD. She sometimes &#8220;acts out&#8221; but is not a behavior problem.\u00a0 At the IEP meeting, the Assistant Principal demanded that we put her on meds. He gave us a deadline date. If we did not comply, he would call 911 for any &#8220;acting out.&#8221; Is this legal?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act expressly forbids school personnel from requiring a child to take meds<\/strong>. Period.<\/p>\n<p>You need to read what IDEA 2004 says about medication.<\/p>\n<p>Turn to page 84 in your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/selaw2.store.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Special Ed Law book<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Section (25) Prohibition on Mandatory Medication.<\/p>\n<p>Your State Department of Education is responsible for ensuring that school districts <strong>do not require<\/strong> parents to obtain a prescription for medication as a condition for<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>attending school,<\/li>\n<li>receiving an evaluation,<\/li>\n<li>or receiving special education services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Document with a Follow-Up Letter<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You should follow up with a short letter that documents exactly what you were told.<\/p>\n<p>Say that you felt intimidated by the Assistant Principal&#8217;s statements. Explain you are confused because you didn&#8217;t think school personnel could require your family to put this child on medication. Explain that you understood this is a decision that can only be made by a medical doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Ask for clarification of the school&#8217;s policies on mandatory medication. Request a copy of the written policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Input from School Teachers<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The law states that school cannot require a child to take medication before providing special ed services.<\/p>\n<p>The law also says that teachers can tell parents that they suspect a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and teachers are usually the first to notice that a child has a problem that is affecting her ability to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers have experience with children with different disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Your child&#8217;s teacher can tell you that she thinks your child may have ADD\/ADHD and may need medication &#8211; nothing wrong with this. It may be something you want to consider.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>IDEA 2004<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/selaw2.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/selaw2\/selaw2.100.sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">1412 (1) (a) (25) Prohibition on Mandatory Medication, page 84.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/selaw2.store.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><em>Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter has ADHD. She sometimes &#8220;acts out&#8221; but is not a behavior problem.\u00a0 At the IEP meeting, the Assistant Principal demanded that we put her on meds. He gave <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/the-school-insists-we-medicate-my-daughter\/\">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":[1377,5],"tags":[238,1307,1291,1063,41],"class_list":["post-9227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-add-adhd","category-idea-2004","tag-add","tag-adhd","tag-advocacy","tag-mandatory-medication-policy","tag-parental-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227","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=9227"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24418,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions\/24418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}