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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 358298" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Why have you not contacted the teacher and told her that your child will be turning what she has already done in. Period. The IEP means she should be given modified assignments. Period. It does NOT mean that teachers should be allowed to get away with picking and choosing which assignments to modify. Call or email the teacher. Tell her that your child has a learning disability and per the iep and meeting on X date, her writing assignments MUST be modified. difficult child struggled through the assignment the first time with the topic being 1 of 2 positions the teacher specified. Her IEP does NOT say she has to do assignments twice. IF the child had refused totally to do the assignment I might not have this opinion. But her meltdown when told that the very HARD work she (and you!) put in just plain wasn't good enough even though it was a position the teacher proposed as a possibility seems very reasonable. I was a TOTAL easy child in school and probably would have had a meltdown over this. I am sure my youngest would simply be unable to function with that nonsense and HE is a easy child too. He has problems writing and will probably end up with dysgraphia being added if anyone tests for it. (He has accomodations for it but not the actual diagnosis as anyone who sees him write for 30 seconds can see the problems and we have AWESOME teachers/school.)</p><p></p><p>NO WAY would I let a teacher do this. I would probably want to verify that the teacher gave X as a position before she did the assignment the first time. But if it was given, or if the position was left up to the child to choose and no one specified that it had to be a position a reasonable person would believe, well, I would NOT make my child re write the assignment.</p><p></p><p>Can your daughter type? The school can provide assistive technology for her to type her assignments and even class notes and math work. My Tyler will have it available next year in the form of a Writer Fusion. It is a laptop device for students built to hold up to students. My oldest had one starting in 6th grade and before that used the classroom computer (he was in sp ed and refused to spend time with the idiot mainstream teacher - his very accurate description of her). thank you had free use of the classroom computer anytime it was not needed for other students. He learned to keyboard (type) this year. Your daughter could pick it up over the summer. Try software like Type to Learn to help her (I think it is still around). There are also many other programs to teach keyboard skills that she could use so she could more easily use a computer for assignments next year.</p><p></p><p>I HATE when teachers refuse to modify assignments when kids so clearly NEED them. I HATE HATE HATE it when they take something a child worked hard on and say it isn't good enough do it this way if their first instructions said to do what the child originally did. ESP a child with learning problems because they work so much harder to get even that first effort done harder than most kids would work to get 3 papers done.</p><p></p><p>Hope I didn't sound to harsh. I know it can be hard to confront a teacher about this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 358298, member: 1233"] Why have you not contacted the teacher and told her that your child will be turning what she has already done in. Period. The IEP means she should be given modified assignments. Period. It does NOT mean that teachers should be allowed to get away with picking and choosing which assignments to modify. Call or email the teacher. Tell her that your child has a learning disability and per the iep and meeting on X date, her writing assignments MUST be modified. difficult child struggled through the assignment the first time with the topic being 1 of 2 positions the teacher specified. Her IEP does NOT say she has to do assignments twice. IF the child had refused totally to do the assignment I might not have this opinion. But her meltdown when told that the very HARD work she (and you!) put in just plain wasn't good enough even though it was a position the teacher proposed as a possibility seems very reasonable. I was a TOTAL easy child in school and probably would have had a meltdown over this. I am sure my youngest would simply be unable to function with that nonsense and HE is a easy child too. He has problems writing and will probably end up with dysgraphia being added if anyone tests for it. (He has accomodations for it but not the actual diagnosis as anyone who sees him write for 30 seconds can see the problems and we have AWESOME teachers/school.) NO WAY would I let a teacher do this. I would probably want to verify that the teacher gave X as a position before she did the assignment the first time. But if it was given, or if the position was left up to the child to choose and no one specified that it had to be a position a reasonable person would believe, well, I would NOT make my child re write the assignment. Can your daughter type? The school can provide assistive technology for her to type her assignments and even class notes and math work. My Tyler will have it available next year in the form of a Writer Fusion. It is a laptop device for students built to hold up to students. My oldest had one starting in 6th grade and before that used the classroom computer (he was in sp ed and refused to spend time with the idiot mainstream teacher - his very accurate description of her). thank you had free use of the classroom computer anytime it was not needed for other students. He learned to keyboard (type) this year. Your daughter could pick it up over the summer. Try software like Type to Learn to help her (I think it is still around). There are also many other programs to teach keyboard skills that she could use so she could more easily use a computer for assignments next year. I HATE when teachers refuse to modify assignments when kids so clearly NEED them. I HATE HATE HATE it when they take something a child worked hard on and say it isn't good enough do it this way if their first instructions said to do what the child originally did. ESP a child with learning problems because they work so much harder to get even that first effort done harder than most kids would work to get 3 papers done. Hope I didn't sound to harsh. I know it can be hard to confront a teacher about this. [/QUOTE]
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