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Sped director wants me to withdraw request for iep meeting.
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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 431154" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>I know you are not new at this so maybe you already know that it's really hard to schedule an end of the year IEP meeting on short notice. I would never expect to be able to get our district Special Education people to pull together a meeting requested less than 60 days before the end of the school year unless it was an emergency. They are totally snowed with end of year IEP's. If there was no planning at the last IEP meeting for a transition meeting then that was a big oversight on the part of the IEP team, especially the Special Education district people who know darn well what the end of the school year brings. If there was a discussion of the need for the meeting and nothing was scheduled then I would point this out to the Special Education director when you write to tell her you do not agree to delay the meeting.</p><p></p><p>In the future, you may want to do what I do now - I always insist that the team decide how soon we are meeting again, erring on the side of meeting sooner than later. Then that information is written into the IEP document. If there's an emergency then obviously that takes precedence over the previously agreed upon date. But this helps make sure that everyone is on the same page about things like ESY and transition planning and that the district can't come back and say they had no reason to expect to hold a meeting in May/June.</p><p></p><p>Have you asked the current Special Education teacher what she thinks would be best for transition purposes? If there's all new staff/teachers next year then holding a meeting now without them there is not real efficient and what the current teacher recommends may turn out to be hard to put into practice in the new educational setting or because Wee's needs have changed or whatever. My point is that I can see pro's and con's to holding a meeting now and not next fall. Best would be a meeting now and next fall just prior to the start of school.</p><p></p><p>Maybe the current teacher would be willing to attend a meeting the week before school starts in the fall to address continuity. Last summer I got the same line from the Special Education district people - "we can't ask them to come in they're not at work yet." So I called the school site Special Education person up and asked her if she would be willing to do a meeting and she not only said she'd come but she'd round up at least one other Special Education teacher who would be working with difficult child 2 to come too. That shut the district person up fast let me tell you. But we held the meeting the week immediately before school started.</p><p></p><p>So there was no previous discussion of ESY for Wee?</p><p></p><p>If you are able to work it out to hold a transition meeting just before the start of the next school year then you could do ESY as an addendum, assuming there's agreement on the eligibility for ESY.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if your district is too slippery for you to trust them with this, but you could offer to compromise by holding a meeting the week before school starts to bring everyone up to speed that is NOT an official IEP meeting.</p><p></p><p>Provided that the current goals are good for next fall and they agree to ESY as an addendum??</p><p></p><p>If they don't come through with scheduling the "informal" meeting with school staff on time or that meeting is a disaster then you call for a new IEP meeting right away. You could even bring the letter with you to the informal meeting in case you need to hand it to them right then. It's likely to get you a meeting just as quickly as if you let them wait to schedule it next fall.</p><p></p><p>If you decide that it is imperative to go ahead with a meeting now, then I would send a written note declining to delay the meeting due to X,Y,Z concerns as stated in your previous request for the team to reconvene. If you know the procedural deadline for the meeting you requested I would specifically state that you want the meeting convened by that date. If you have a little flexibility with the date then you could give a little by saying that you agree to a delay beyond that date provided the meeting is held by X date. Makes you look good should you find yourself in mediation and makes it clear to them that you know about procedural deadlines.</p><p></p><p>Good luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 431154, member: 11920"] I know you are not new at this so maybe you already know that it's really hard to schedule an end of the year IEP meeting on short notice. I would never expect to be able to get our district Special Education people to pull together a meeting requested less than 60 days before the end of the school year unless it was an emergency. They are totally snowed with end of year IEP's. If there was no planning at the last IEP meeting for a transition meeting then that was a big oversight on the part of the IEP team, especially the Special Education district people who know darn well what the end of the school year brings. If there was a discussion of the need for the meeting and nothing was scheduled then I would point this out to the Special Education director when you write to tell her you do not agree to delay the meeting. In the future, you may want to do what I do now - I always insist that the team decide how soon we are meeting again, erring on the side of meeting sooner than later. Then that information is written into the IEP document. If there's an emergency then obviously that takes precedence over the previously agreed upon date. But this helps make sure that everyone is on the same page about things like ESY and transition planning and that the district can't come back and say they had no reason to expect to hold a meeting in May/June. Have you asked the current Special Education teacher what she thinks would be best for transition purposes? If there's all new staff/teachers next year then holding a meeting now without them there is not real efficient and what the current teacher recommends may turn out to be hard to put into practice in the new educational setting or because Wee's needs have changed or whatever. My point is that I can see pro's and con's to holding a meeting now and not next fall. Best would be a meeting now and next fall just prior to the start of school. Maybe the current teacher would be willing to attend a meeting the week before school starts in the fall to address continuity. Last summer I got the same line from the Special Education district people - "we can't ask them to come in they're not at work yet." So I called the school site Special Education person up and asked her if she would be willing to do a meeting and she not only said she'd come but she'd round up at least one other Special Education teacher who would be working with difficult child 2 to come too. That shut the district person up fast let me tell you. But we held the meeting the week immediately before school started. So there was no previous discussion of ESY for Wee? If you are able to work it out to hold a transition meeting just before the start of the next school year then you could do ESY as an addendum, assuming there's agreement on the eligibility for ESY. I don't know if your district is too slippery for you to trust them with this, but you could offer to compromise by holding a meeting the week before school starts to bring everyone up to speed that is NOT an official IEP meeting. Provided that the current goals are good for next fall and they agree to ESY as an addendum?? If they don't come through with scheduling the "informal" meeting with school staff on time or that meeting is a disaster then you call for a new IEP meeting right away. You could even bring the letter with you to the informal meeting in case you need to hand it to them right then. It's likely to get you a meeting just as quickly as if you let them wait to schedule it next fall. If you decide that it is imperative to go ahead with a meeting now, then I would send a written note declining to delay the meeting due to X,Y,Z concerns as stated in your previous request for the team to reconvene. If you know the procedural deadline for the meeting you requested I would specifically state that you want the meeting convened by that date. If you have a little flexibility with the date then you could give a little by saying that you agree to a delay beyond that date provided the meeting is held by X date. Makes you look good should you find yourself in mediation and makes it clear to them that you know about procedural deadlines. Good luck [/QUOTE]
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