Write a memo responding to the following situation:

Gollnick and Chinn (2009) stated, “The plight of persons with disabilities has...closely paralleled that of oppressed ethnic groups." Separation is never equal, but students with disabilities are all too often segregated and placed in self-contained classrooms, when at times their needs can be met in a general education classroom.

A new family moves into the community and their daughter who has an auditory processing disability has been placed in a resource classroom in your school. The program services the child’s needs through an appropriately certified staff member each day for forty-five minutes. The parents are advocating for the child to be placed in an out-of-district placement. They believe the auditory program being offered in your school is not the best program and the out of district placement program is far superior. Based upon the Child Study Team’s recommendations, the Director of Special Services disagrees with the parent’s decision and supports the in-district placement. The parents are planning to bring litigation against the district regarding the placement. As the school principal, you believe appropriate services are being provided through the resource room placement. Consider what documents will be needed to support the placement and illustrate how the placement is appropriate. Please craft a memo to the school board attorney supporting the current placement in your school.