From the article: Special Needs Children and Private School Tuition Reimbursement
The special needs children private school tuition debate rages on. Have you successfully advocated for private school tuition reimbursement? Are you interested in trying? Share your thoughts and what you've learned with others parents of children with learning disabilities. Share Your Experiences
Jewel
- My grandson is in private school. He is LD but also very bright. My daugter who is a single mother is trying desperately to educate her son. She has lost everything she owned in the process of trying to meet the monthly tuition. He has so many problems and was learning nothing in school. I think there should be private school tuition reimbursement for these LD children. They can learn. They can go to college. They just need so much help.
- —Guest Jewel Bond
Would like to seek reimbursement
- We enrolled our son into a Montessori program because we believe that teaching method will best serve him. After our first IEP meeting, we did not feel the district provided a fair eval for our son so we kept him in the private schooling. We have since repeated the eval and fought to place him in a blended preschool class as opposed to the self-contained special ed class. He did well with typical peers and did continue his private school as well. We had assumed that since in our case the district was erring on the side of providing too many services and not giving our son credit for what he could do (i.e. creating goals he had already met), that we would not be eligible for reimbursement of the private tuition. Would love to hear if anyone has similar experience and sought reimbursement.
- —skylovr
