Opinion ID: 1027636
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Validity of 2005-2006 IEP

Text: Finally, we consider whether the 2005-2006 IEP was adequate to provide M.S. with a FAPE. Pursuant to the HO's order, Fairfax County prepared an IEP for 2005-2006 that provided 12.75 hours per week of individual instruction, in addition to 17.25 hours of the group and vocational instruction that the HO determined were important to M.S.'s education. The IEP also provided for additional one-on-one assistance as the educators deemed necessary. The district court found the IEP adequate to provide M.S. with a FAPE because it complied with the HO's order to provide reliable and intensive one-on-one education. M.S., No. 1:05cv1476, 2007 WL 1378545, at , 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33735, at . The parents contend that the 12.75 hours per week of one-on-one instruction is insufficient to provide M.S. with a FAPE. Although trivial academic advancement will not produce a FAPE, Hall ex rel. Hall v. Vance County Bd. of Educ., 774 F.2d 629, 636 (4th Cir.1985), the IDEA does not require a perfect education, MM ex rel. DM, 303 F.3d at 526 (The IDEA does not ... require a school district to provide a disabled child with the best possible education.). The IEP must be calculated to confer some educational benefit on a disabled child. A.B. ex rel D.B. v. Lawson, 354 F.3d 315, 319 (4th Cir.2004) (internal quotation marks omitted) (emphasis in original). Under this standard, we cannot say the district court clearly erred in determining the 2005-2006 IEP adequate.