Dan Robinson Law, P.C.

Just in time for new school year: Dept of Education issues new guidance on disciplining students with disabilities

This is a constant area of difficulty and dispute. Many school administrators just cannot get it through their heads that punitive punishment is not the appropriate response to behavior caused by a student’s disability! Hopefully this new guidance will serve as a reminder that it is illegal for schools to punish kids for manifestations of their disability. Instead, they have to come…