Cecilia: I am a sp needs teacher in a resource room – the gen classroom I push into has a student (who struggles) however, he did not qualify for my services BUT it has been suggested that I “pull him out” to my room during academic instruction to help him during reading and lang arts POSSIBLY MATH.I want to know if this is LEGAL I already know the parent must be informed and we will not get federal funding and it can only be incidental however can he be” PULLED OUT” and taken to my room with students who have IEP’S and he does not.
I don’t know the legal issues around this. Every since my child was in special education, I have seen this occur many times and also during my time as a paraprofessional. . You ask what is legal–it seems anything some principals can get away with is legal. Your caseload regardless will increase with such students — though they are not officially on your caseload. I thought RTI would catch such students like this.
It seems like the school wants to use the resource teacher as RTI.