Discipline Case Study Flowchart

Discipline Case Study Flowchart Part 1: Flowchart The student Carrie age 15 is facing disciplinary actions against her for misconduct on school transportation. Carrie was suspended for 11 school days, because of this a Manifestation Determination hearing is called into place. The student is not allowed on transportation with general education students but is place on special education transportation for the remainder of the school year. The Manifestation Determination Review (MDR) decided that Carrie’s behaviors lead to her removal from transportation? 1. Students behavior was a direct cause by their disability? 2. The school and or school district failed to fully implement the students IEP under FAPE. Yes, Misconduct was a result of Carrie’s Disability. The actions of Carrie were a result of her disability.  The school/district must perform a functional behavioral assessment for Carrie.  The school/district will need to develop along with implementing a behavior intervention plan for Carrie. The school/district must not inflict any further discipline to Carrie and must let her back into school. No, Misconduct was not a result of Carrie’s Disability. The action of Carrie did not result from her disability. A Manifestation Determination will help correct the actions. Carrie would be receiving the proper provisions to her plan and if any discipline is necessary that will come from the schools principal. The parent/guardian of the student requested that the IEP team convenes in order to produce and execute a functional behavioral assessment (FBA), as well as creating a behavioral intervention plan (BIP) for her. The family objectives to moving Carrie from her current transportations too special education transportation. The families reasoning for their objections is that in Carries IEP it’s clarifies that she is supposed to be on the general education transportation provided by the district. As the MDR becomes finalized if it is determined that the actions taken by Carries require a disciplinary referral or if this was a direct cause from her disability. The IEP team overseeing her data will assemble and complete an FBA and create and implement a BIP. The transportation department and school staff should follow the new implementation. It is indeed found that Carrie’s disability was in fact a cause as she experiences the inability to properly express language along with thoughts, feeling, and her ideas. With that the school/district must allow Carrie to resume her schooling with the standard transportations in general education. Part 2: Analysis Depending on if Carrie were going against the schools code of conduct or the district policy her school principal would be in defilement of properly placing Carrie, as they intended for her to be switched of to the special equation transportation for the remainder of the school year. Upon the IEP team finding is a student like Carrie were to encounter misconduct/misbehavior such as weapons, drugs, or severe injury to a body the will return to the same placement as before, with the disciplinary action (Manifestation determination, n.d.). Perhaps the school did not properly implement the students IEP they must take an immediate action to remedy their deficiencies. In the instance that her behavior was not a manifestation of her disability, Carries will be properly disciplined as her peers would without a disability as she is protected under FAPE. Although Carrie received an 11 day suspension her school/district is required to be provide her the sufficient services that allow her to continue progressing in the curriculum along with trying to meet IEP goals. No matter the MDR, the school/district is required to perform an FBA, as well as implementing a BIP to help alleviate future behavior’s from Carrie. Carrie does still remain a recipient of FAPE. School officials are not allowed to remove children in series of short-term suspensions that are lasting up to ten days. Perhaps suspensions begin to form a pattern, this would be considered placement change as it is a removal period (Discipline for children with disabilities: answers to commonly asked questions, 2009). With an MDR this would indicate if the actions taken by the student’s principal were appropriate for the situation or if it was not. Although, prior Carrie was not given an FBA nor did she have a BIP in place. It is also important to look at that this was Carrie’s fist offense, looking at the removal from her current transportation would a an unsubstantiated hasty decision from her school/district. This should be reviewed by the IEP team very clearly before initiating any consequences.