"The Tribunal accepts that these may be valid disagreements, but notes that such matters as class size, the characteristics of other students, the qualifications of teachers, the intensity of the programming provided to her child (one to one support), the type of technology, etc., described in her exhibit called Placement Needs, are deemed to be outside the jurisdiction of the Tribunal.
Placement, which is not defined in the Education Act, is intertwined with
programs and services.
Therefore, when parents are in disagreement with placement, it is important that they state the grounds for their dissatisfaction clearly and specify the remedy that they are seeking. However, when the parents' dissatisfaction is primarily or exclusively focused on such matters as programming, services, class size, the provision of educational assistant support, staff qualifications, and so on, parents cannot expect the Tribunal to issue orders on these, because it does not have jurisdiction to do so."
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