According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), all children are afforded the right to a free and appropriate public education. This means, that irrespective of a student's educational needs, under the law (i.e., IDEA), they are afforded the right to access a free and appropriate public education. At times, the extent of a student's educational needs may extend outside of the range of educational services that their school district offers (e.g., students who may require a therapeutic day school placement but their school district may not have a therapeutic day school within the district). In this case, the school district would still be responsible for meeting the educational needs of the students even if the student required an educational placement outside of their home school district. What would you do if you had a child who needed more services than your district could provide? Is the district supposed to tell parents about all the other options? If the district is responsible for that, do you think they would, or do you think they would try to fulfill your child's needs in the wrong way to save money?