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Desperately seeking advice. IEP not working. What are my opetions?
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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 126282" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>IN fairness to you, take what I say with a grain of salt, becuz I am currently homeschooling 2 of my kids, so, I must not have been able to figure a lot of it out? </p><p>Seems to me instead of the school just telling you their complaints, they need to figure out how to HELP him with his learning. As for his age or grade? well, I have opinions about that as well......I got pretty frustrated over similar comments in my disctrict about my son. HIs AGE does not necessarily have much to do with things-------MOST other middle school kids here by my son COULD read, could write, and could see. My son counldn't. ALl my wishful thinking and all their complaining was not going to change that. As for takeing responsibility for it? Well, in my opinion the school needed to help us with that. Help us by giving us ways for my son to learn how to do so. They could sit there and point a finger and state the facts all they wanted, but what was needed was to put togehter a plan of action to help resolve the issues. As for immaturity? SOMETIMES that IS slow to develop, for a wide variety of reasons......and if it is due to a physical reason, then they will just have to deal with it, cope with it, accept it.....work with it! Well, thats my opinion, anyway. Heck, in my opinion there are a lot of full grown adults who remain "immature" and depending on your definition of it, well, I personally feel there are a lot of school personnel here who qualify as "immature" and also as "not takeing responsibility" </p><p>As for the tutor, follow your heart and your gut. I only mentioned it becuz sometimes you can um..have someone who is presenting material over and over in the same old way and it is doing no good, and unless things are done a little differently, you coould keep on presenting it forever with no benefit. I was not sure if the tutor was helping or not. I was thinking if you keep useing this one key on your car door and the door is not opening, maybe you ned to try a different key. Thats all. If this tutor helps- great! </p><p>Seems to me in order to get the school to pay for the tutor, it must be addressed in an iep meeting, and school would have to agree there is a need. </p><p></p><p>I apologize if I sound less than positive or pleasant. I sat in far too many iep meetings were I was subjected to a LONG list of all my childrens problems and seldom were any ideas ever presented to help resolve the problems. And if I came up with ideas, they were shot down from the start. On the rare occasions we did write down accomodations, they most often were not implemented, or were implemented improperly, or used as ammunition against my child. SOmetimes they were removed from the iep becuz our district said well, we tried that it worked, so now we can remove it...I could not seem to get the school to understand sometimes certain accomodations are permanantly necessary. </p><p></p><p>I am hoping Martie or SHeila come along and give you some concrete ideas.....ones that might work. Cuz it sounds like your childs school is simply trying to bide time ........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 126282, member: 1697"] IN fairness to you, take what I say with a grain of salt, becuz I am currently homeschooling 2 of my kids, so, I must not have been able to figure a lot of it out? Seems to me instead of the school just telling you their complaints, they need to figure out how to HELP him with his learning. As for his age or grade? well, I have opinions about that as well......I got pretty frustrated over similar comments in my disctrict about my son. HIs AGE does not necessarily have much to do with things-------MOST other middle school kids here by my son COULD read, could write, and could see. My son counldn't. ALl my wishful thinking and all their complaining was not going to change that. As for takeing responsibility for it? Well, in my opinion the school needed to help us with that. Help us by giving us ways for my son to learn how to do so. They could sit there and point a finger and state the facts all they wanted, but what was needed was to put togehter a plan of action to help resolve the issues. As for immaturity? SOMETIMES that IS slow to develop, for a wide variety of reasons......and if it is due to a physical reason, then they will just have to deal with it, cope with it, accept it.....work with it! Well, thats my opinion, anyway. Heck, in my opinion there are a lot of full grown adults who remain "immature" and depending on your definition of it, well, I personally feel there are a lot of school personnel here who qualify as "immature" and also as "not takeing responsibility" As for the tutor, follow your heart and your gut. I only mentioned it becuz sometimes you can um..have someone who is presenting material over and over in the same old way and it is doing no good, and unless things are done a little differently, you coould keep on presenting it forever with no benefit. I was not sure if the tutor was helping or not. I was thinking if you keep useing this one key on your car door and the door is not opening, maybe you ned to try a different key. Thats all. If this tutor helps- great! Seems to me in order to get the school to pay for the tutor, it must be addressed in an iep meeting, and school would have to agree there is a need. I apologize if I sound less than positive or pleasant. I sat in far too many iep meetings were I was subjected to a LONG list of all my childrens problems and seldom were any ideas ever presented to help resolve the problems. And if I came up with ideas, they were shot down from the start. On the rare occasions we did write down accomodations, they most often were not implemented, or were implemented improperly, or used as ammunition against my child. SOmetimes they were removed from the iep becuz our district said well, we tried that it worked, so now we can remove it...I could not seem to get the school to understand sometimes certain accomodations are permanantly necessary. I am hoping Martie or SHeila come along and give you some concrete ideas.....ones that might work. Cuz it sounds like your childs school is simply trying to bide time ........ [/QUOTE]
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