Why schools should want your OCD child to have a 504 plan

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According to section 504, a student with a behavioral health diagnosis who is

NOT able to follow behavior rules of the school (swears, hits, spits on students

or staff) must be allowed equal access to education. The law does not

distinguish between a physical disability (not able to climb stairs to the

science lab) and a behavioral disability.

The benefit to the school of agreeing to the 504 plan for my child is in dealing

with the parents of OTHER students. A complaining parent of a student adversely

affected by my OCD child can be told that my OCD child is protected against

expulsion by the (the 504) law. The complaining parent therefore has little or

no legal standing to cause the school to remove my OCD child.

Its a brave new world.