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Originally Posted by jillio
That is a good illustration for the 504 plan that we were discussing under another thread. The 504 plan would grant students such as yourself the right to enter into the mainstream, but provides for no services or accommodations that assist the student in the adjustment to the mainstream.
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Jillio,
I'll have to google that. I really do wish my parents had other options, but they didn't. They were told that if I was to be mainstreamed, I must go to my neighborhood school. They plucked me from one environment and planted me into another. I had no means to slowly integrate into the new environment. I am sure I was told that I was going to a new school, and I probably was excited at first, but once I got there, it was a nightmare. I wasn't prepared for it, and the other students weren't prepared for me. I was the only student in the school who was in a wheelchair, and they simply didn't know how to deal with it. It was hell.