Substitution Is Not Implementation Unless the Need Is Still Met

Schools have real days. People are absent. Schedules break. Equipment goes missing. Services get moved. Sometimes a workaround is necessary.

But a workaround is not automatically implementation. If the team substitutes, delays, reduces, or changes a support, it still needs to ask: is the student’s documented need being met?

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