What is the BEST response when a student's parents insist on a strategy that you know to be ineffective?

A. Provide them with access to peer-reviewed journals that discuss the futility of the strategy they want.
B. Explain how the selection of that option might affect implementation of other approaches.
C. Contact the child's physician to ask her to talk to the parents about why the strategy they want is not best for their child.
D. Tell them it is not possible to implement that strategy.


Answer: B

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