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School psychologist doesn't agree with diagnosis
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<blockquote data-quote="SchPsych" data-source="post: 27704" data-attributes="member: 3563"><p>Hi,</p><p>New to this board. Just offering an opinion so please don't get upset because I work as a school psychologist. While I don't know the motive behind particular school psychologist's actions, I hope that reading some of these posts doesn't create an "us vs. them" mentality. Child study teams should be willing to help parents with diagnostic issues and not try to reject outside diagnoses. I believe strongly in what the last post says, "if a kid doesn't fit into a diagnosis it does not mean there is no problem." There should be help for all children that struggle in school. What I would encourage all of us to do, is look at the federal and state laws and legislators, and ask why Special Education. laws have strict categories for eligibility, or why enough money is not given to schools to hire enough good teachers and child study team members who can help every child, or why state legislators are making laws about education when most of them have no idea what it takes to educate our children these days. I know bad child study team members and bad teachers, and one terrible part of the system is tenure. It keeps bad teachers in schools and bad child study team members who don't want to help the students. All of these laws and rules keep those of us who work in schools from doing the best job possible. I can work 12 hours a day and still not help a fraction of the kids in my district that need it. Yet other psychologists will put in a 7.5 hour day and go home and not worry about anything. There is a lot of ineffective management of schools and the law that really hurts the kids more, and create situations that allow bad psychologists to remain in positions where they can "reject" reports or try to refuse to help a student to the best ability of the school. Just a thought...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SchPsych, post: 27704, member: 3563"] Hi, New to this board. Just offering an opinion so please don't get upset because I work as a school psychologist. While I don't know the motive behind particular school psychologist's actions, I hope that reading some of these posts doesn't create an "us vs. them" mentality. Child study teams should be willing to help parents with diagnostic issues and not try to reject outside diagnoses. I believe strongly in what the last post says, "if a kid doesn't fit into a diagnosis it does not mean there is no problem." There should be help for all children that struggle in school. What I would encourage all of us to do, is look at the federal and state laws and legislators, and ask why Special Education. laws have strict categories for eligibility, or why enough money is not given to schools to hire enough good teachers and child study team members who can help every child, or why state legislators are making laws about education when most of them have no idea what it takes to educate our children these days. I know bad child study team members and bad teachers, and one terrible part of the system is tenure. It keeps bad teachers in schools and bad child study team members who don't want to help the students. All of these laws and rules keep those of us who work in schools from doing the best job possible. I can work 12 hours a day and still not help a fraction of the kids in my district that need it. Yet other psychologists will put in a 7.5 hour day and go home and not worry about anything. There is a lot of ineffective management of schools and the law that really hurts the kids more, and create situations that allow bad psychologists to remain in positions where they can "reject" reports or try to refuse to help a student to the best ability of the school. Just a thought... [/QUOTE]
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