Based on the fact that I am informing you of federal law?

I guess the attitude towards education on lemmy I keep seeing makes a lot of sense - the lack of reading comprehension is spectacular. Notice I didn’t even say ODD was an invalid diagnosis, but multiple commenters seem to have hallucinated a little bit of text at the end.

A manifestation determination is a finding of whether a student’s conduct is a manifestation of their disability. The conduct must be found to be a manifestation if: 1) the conduct was caused by or had a direct and substantial relationship to the disability, or 2) the conduct was the direct result of the district’s failure to implement the IEP. 34 C.F.R. § 300.530(e). If the manifestation determination reveals that the conduct was a manifestation of the child's disability, unless the provisions of an Interim Alternative Educational Setting apply (see criteria below) the IEP team must return the child to the placement from which the child was removed, unless the parent and the district agree to a change of placement.

From a California website but an accurate reflection of federal law.

It’s very cute how everyone assumes that the resources to write accurate IEPs are there. My first year teaching my “IEPs” were a spreadsheet with check boxes for accommodations… every school I’ve worked at has had kids with “resource room” listed as an accommodation without actually having a “resource room,” my “co-taught SPED class” was just me because they used the co-teacher to sub…