Since I can’t risk letting @EWoodhouse7 down today, how about we dive into IDEA law application in schools?
Have a student with an exceptionality in any US state?
The following 5 photos will be in regards to least restrictive educational environment.
Let’s discuss.
What was that you say? A continuum of alternative placements? Ah, yes. An IEP is a legal document between a family and a school system guaranteeing specific modifications and accommodations to environment and curriculum based on learner need.
They cannot deny IEP services.
That LRE stands for Least Restrictive Educational Environment.
A child forced to stay home instead of receiving services in person because that child cannot mask is noncompliant with LRE.
Many children require early intervention services - their needs supersede employee need.
“In selecting LRE consideration is given to any potential harmful effect on the child or on the quality of services that he or she needs.”

Are your children being served? Or are irreversible damages being done to them in the name of “safety”?

Least. Restrictive.
What’s that you say? Just keep all of the children with autism and profoundly disabling conditions and speech impediments and hearing needs and broken thumbs out of the mainstream classes? Sorry, nope. IDEA sees the needs of all learners as equal.
“But surely there cannot be that many qualifying exemptions to masking.”
Oh, P.S. “Other Health Impairment” is an umbrella for basically everything under the sun.
This is how you fight back.
Here is some ADA law: contagious and noncontagious diseases are covered. Infection itself does not constitute direct threat.
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