If your school district or a school district you know of is engaging in the regular practice of separate schedules and shortened school days for special education students, be aware that this is a violation of the students’ rights and a violation of law.
Unless an individual student’s IEP team has agreed to a specific schedule as appropriate for said student,based on the student’s individual needs, students with disabilities should not be subject to the discrimination of a separate school schedule, or a shortened school day. Students with disabilities have the right to fully access their education.
ICAA does not give legal advice. We do present important information and encourage all people, with all abilities and/or their guardians, to be informed.
Please see information related to at least the following and their meanings: Section 504, The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), IDEA, Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), and Least Restrictive Environment (LRE).
Section 504 in particular notes that schools receiving federal funds are required to make classes, school programs and activities accessible to students with disabilities and injuries.
Section 504 prohibits shortened school days, among other things, including “anything else that makes education less valuable for children with disabilities than it is for other children”.
It is important to seek information from the Missouri Department of Education Department of Special Education and the Office for Civil Rights pertaining to your local school districts.
Here is only one example of this discrimination from Hodge Elementary School on a half day: Hodge School Dismissal Notice
Here are some relevant documents regarding cases of similar discrimination in US schools for students with disabilities: ALASKA CASE ARIZONA CASE Colorado Case FELIX (Missouri Case) ITHICA CASE New Mexico Memo Washington Case
Below is information of schedules for the Fox C-6 District.
This post is public information regarding public schools within the Fox C-6 District in Missouri.
This information is according to the publicly available student handbooks as seen in the various schools’ pages at the Fox website.
Antonia Elementary School:
Starts at 8:20 AM
Ends at 3:40 PM
Antonia Middle School:
According to the handbook, at Antonia middle, the bell for students to start going to their first period classes rings at 7:55 AM
The first period class starts at 8:36 AM unless you are part of “Advisory” which begins at 8:01 AM
The last class ends at 3:00 PM
Clyde Hamrick:
Starts 8:40 AM
Ends: 3:40 PM
Information for Don Earl was not accessible at the website.
Fox Elementary School
Starts: 8:40 AM
Ends: 3:40 PM
Fox Middle School
Starts: 7:20 AM
Ends: 2:25 PM
There is also another schedule listed for “Teambuilding Fridays”
Fox High School
Start: 7:20 AM
End: 2:25 PM
George Guffey Elementary
Starts: 8:40 AM
Ends: 3:40 PM
LoneDell Elementary:
Start: 8:40 AM
End: 3:40 PM
Meramec Heights Elementary
Start:8:20 AM
End: 3:35 PM
Hodge Elementary
Start: 8:40 AM
End: 3:40 PM
Simpson:
Start: 8:10 AM
End: 3:10 PM
Rockport Heights:
Start: 8:10 AM
End: 3:10 PM
Seckman Elementary:
Start: 8:10 AM
End: 3:10 PM
Seckman Middle School schedules were not found on the website.
Seckman Senior High School
Start: 7:20 AM
End: 2:25 PM
Sherwood Elementary
Start: 8:10 AM
End: 3:10 PM
If your student is coming home or going in to school at a different time than listed here, he or she may be on the different schedules which some Fox Schools practice for special education students.
If you or someone you know is on a different schedule than posted, and you have questions, you may contact the ICAA.
This website is used for providing information for education, support, awareness, charity and advocacy purposes.
Update: The Fox C-6 School District has been found non-compliant by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. What is your school district doing? If you have information about school districts complying with laws, which are not practicing separate schedules, let us know. If you have information about schools practicing the separate schedules, you may report it to ICAA.
**schedules presented are true and accurate when ICAA posted information from the public district’s website and the website may be subject to changes.
“Rodney Reynolds” : So you’re the spouse of an spec ed teacher? What kind of special ed teacher and what kind of parent of a special needs child thinks that the RIGHTS of people with disabilities are LESS worth fighting for than the rights of racial minorities or anyone else? It is an INSULT to the Brown case to care about peoples like your own child’s rights?
I think you should care more as a dad and shame on your spouse too if they shares this same ignorant train of thoughts. Shows where our failures in education systems are. You seems to have a personal agenda and don’t care about kids rights. You shouldn’t attack and threaten people who do care .
Ho dare this ‘Rodney’ if that is her or his real name suggest children with disabilities have any less rights to protections and education. disgusting. and the spouse is supposedly a special ed teacher? wow.
who are you icaa? The aclu? lol school districts don’t have to do anything you say. even if kids are on different schedules like you say it doesnt matter as long as they have the same hours in. you guys are just spending all your time agitateing.
people can smell the corruption for miles away from the district.
Jane Doe, they are not saying the district is not *nice* to people with disabilities they are reporting what has been found in the district regarding separate schedules. that’s discrimination. you know it and i know it and since some districts don’t make information easy to find they are reporting public information here. i for one am glad for it. a public service that the districts should be doing in the first place. i guess if it agitate people then so be it. some people just want to compain i guess.
i work in that district and i know for a fact the district is very nice to disabled people. not sure why you all are agitating like that. disabled kids sometimes need to be on different schedules. your over sensitive and over pc.
are you going to make them stop?
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THE smiley in that notice? makes it even more offensive and wrong. what jerks are letting this happen? i sent you an e-mail to the info@ addy. thx!
For all advocates, parents and concerned citizens in the community:
Legal Precedents include but are certainly not limited to the following, which are also a matter of public record: Talladega AL City SD 353 IDELR 340 (EHLR 353:340; Blount Co TN SD 42 IDELR 65 (OCR 2004) , Granite UT SD 19 IDELR 984 (OCR 1993) even ten minutes difference will trigger investigation, and also 52 IDELR 108 (OCR 2009) 39 IDELR 135 (OCR 2003), 32 ODELR 214 (OCR 1999); and several others which can be requested or easily researched……
Also, public information is available for people to easily search for your local public school regarding review for NCLB or with the OCR for compliance.
So you’re an accomplished attorney now quoting case law? I’d like to have a conversation with your legal counsel as a fellow concerned parent.
The link above this post is for one of the public schools in the public school district that has a segregated, separate schedule for students with disabilities. ICAA is posting this public information for public education and community awareness. ICAA does not condone the segregated, separate schedules, and has notified the public school district of our concern, our disapproval, and we have asked them to stop.
Connect with us with any questions and as always, we will keep the public we serve informed and up to date.
I knew this was coming. I just did not know of anyone who wasn’t afraid to speak out about it. Most parents and others are scared to death to stand up to the cronyism in place.
§ 162.710, RSMo
Transportation, how provided.-
The district responsible for furnishing special educational services shall provide necessary
transportation for all handicapped children residing within the district, including transportation to and from contracted day classes, notwithstanding the provisions of sections 162.621 and
167.231, RSMo
5 CSR 30-261.040 Allowable Costs for State Transportation Aid
section 8. Eligible and Ineligible Transportation Mileage.
A) Transportation eligible for state aid includes:
1. Approved route mileage during the regular school term to and from:
a) School at the beginning and end of the regular school day;
b) A publicly-operated university laboratory school at the beginning and end of
the school day;
c) Any school, department or class conducted during the regular school day for
which career education aid is paid by the Division of Career Education that
provides education services for high school students;
d) Special education classes either in or outside the district that require special
transportation arrangements at the beginning and end of the regular school
day or during the regular school day; and
2. Approved route mileage during the summer school term (for summer school
programs that are approved by the Division of School Improvement) to and from
special education classes either in or outside the district that require special
transportation arrangements….
I would suggest starting with the following:
Missouri Sunshine Law summary and information
http://ago.mo.gov/sunshinelaw/sunshinelaw.htm
Pertaining to the LRE, IDEA, 504, ADA, FAPE, and shortened or separate school days for kids with disabilities:
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) decision, Sierra Vista (AZ) Unified School District, 54 IDELR 35 (OCR, July 10, 2009)
Regulation:
34 C.F.R. § 104.33 Free appropriate public education.
Rulings have been issued in the following and more on this issue: Utah, Maryland, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Arizona….
The problem is many parents do not know and school districts are not in any hurry to inform parents or the community that they do this to save money on buses and transportation. Even though it is illegal, schools often keep doing it believing they won’t be called out.
A lot of people expect Kentuckians to be behind the time. Guess what? Our school with scant resources is NOT and would NOT do this to our kids. Shame on the school districts doing this and I hope ICAA gets LOUD with this one. Let me know how I can help from the Bluegrass state! Who the heck is the superintendent allowing this or ORDERING this? SHAME.
kentucky woman, i agree passionately. i live in california. we are known to be ahead of things. well, i have seen some problems but not this discrimination. this must be a real scummy school district and i hope icaa keeps up on this. they have been with other things like jrc and insurance discrimination. count me and my family of 18 in if you need some mass mailers or mass calls. i also called my friend at the aclu.
I have called everyone in my class. We attend Maryville U and have organized a future teachers student group. This is something some of us just got done learning thanks to one of our instructors. How do professionals not know this is against the law? Or are they just hoping they can keep doing it?
We can’t let this continue. What if the kids were being on different schedules based on their race? What if they were only doing it to homosexuals? Look, disabilities are just as protected and the kids NEED all the education they can get. Not less. How will they get better in life without the education they are entitled to by law?? Count me in. I have passed this around.
This is not Brown v. Board of Education, people. This is an issue of “reasonable accommodation” as set forth by the ADA. This is actually a positive for the families who are reasonable enough to listen to the district’s rationale. To treat this as Brown v. Board is insulting to the good people who worked extraordinarily hard to champion civil rights. Once again, it is so much easier to rail on obscure internet forums than to make a logical argument.
Where’s your logical argument? People like you hold up progress. What your stake in all this? Why don’t you answer that before you go off half cocked again. Shame if it is true you are a sped teacher with a special needs child because you are blabbing some ignorant nonsense and act like you have a pretty unstable temper tantrum problem too.
Do these school districts have no access to law books or are they just so terrible they don’t care if its right or not? Outrageous. Please email me and tell me how I can help organize some advocates.
As a parent in a district that is doing this I can tell you some of us are just scared to speak up about it. I know its wrong but what can we do? Especially if no one else is willing to stand up?