IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR IPRC’D STUDENTS (REGULAR & HSP PROGRAM)

Each year special education placements are reviewed for all exceptional students.  (e.g., LD, Gifted (regular class), MID, DD, etc.)This review includes a discussion of the student’s exceptionality and placement. 

 For Grade 7 Students:  In most cases no changes in exceptionality or placement will be recommended for the following school year for our grade 7 students.  In these situations, the school and parents may choose to waive the annual review.  The School Support Team (SST) at St. Andrew’s Junior High School has recommended that the annual review for all grade 7 students currently in the Home School Program (HSP) or in regular class be waived at this time.  This would mean that your son/daughter’s exceptionality and placement, as stated above, are maintained for the upcoming, 2012-2013, school year.  A form requesting your signature was sent home in November.  An additional copy was sent home recently for students who had not yet returned a signed form. Please note that it is very important that every IPRC’d child have either a signed ‘Parent Option to Waive’ form or the parent chooses to attend the IPRC meeting to show that this mandated review was done for the 2011-2012 school year.  In the case of students in HSP, this signed ‘Parent Option to Waive’ form is what is used by the TDSB to generate the class placement into our HSP Program for the 2012-2013 school year.

 For Grade 8& 9 Students:  For grade eight students this marks the end of the elementary years and your son/daughter is transitioning into his/her secondary education, an IPRC Annual Review is required.  (i.e., the Annual Review Meeting can not be waived)  For grade nine students, your are transitioning out of one school and into another and therefore an IPRC Annual Review is required.  The Identification, Placement and Review Committee (IPRC) conducting this review will consider the current placement and identification as well as the progress.  A letter was sent home in December asking if you would be able to attend the scheduled meeting.  Unfortunately, we rushed to get this information out to you only to be told shortly thereafter that the turnaround time was too short considering the placement of the break.  (I apologize to those who received inaccurate data on the form that was sent home for your child at that time.)  Every grade 8 & 9 student should have received a brown IPRC envelope to take home this week, inviting parents to the IPRC Annual Review meeting scheduled for January 26^th.  Once this school letter has been returned to me in the office, if you wish to and are able to attend the meeting, an IPRC invitation will be sent home with the specific time for your child.  (Meetings will be no more than 10-15 minutes in length.)  If you did not receive this very important envelope or you wish to contact me directly to make sure that the information is received in a timely fashion, please feel free to contact me via e-mail at deborah.drape@tdsb.on.ca or by phone at 416-395-3090.

 Sincerely,

 Mrs. D. Drape, Vice-Principal

Advertisement