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<blockquote data-quote="Kjs" data-source="post: 43534"><p>My difficult child has only been in Special Education for semester last year and all of this year. already I have found how "they" try to snow you over witht he IEP when you really don't know what to do.</p><p></p><p>Our IEP (third meeting this year upon MY requests) is on Monday. Can't really say the others were really IEP's. In the fall I requested a review of IEP since last years was only a paper that was passed around from teacher to teacher and they wrote whether he participated, not, or was disruptive. And he was suppose to take that home every night. Right. Like that EVER happened.</p><p>So..in the Fall of this year we went in to review. He seemed to have matured over the summer and just seemed so much better. The only focus at that time was to keep him in class without an outburst of without being disruptive. OK. I can work with that.</p><p></p><p>Had many situations last year where he would "react" to someone pushing him or someone doing something to him, and he would get punished/ suspended but the instigator got nothing. I addressed that. If he is reacting the other should be punished also. If the other didn't instigate there would be NO reaction.</p><p></p><p>Then in January was his scheduled annual IEP review. It was almost the end of second quarter. He earned straight A's that quarter had no issues, liked school. Our only concern was his lack of organizational skills. Left things in other classes, lost everything, books, notebooks, papers, pencils, pens. Was late several times to class because he has to socialize between classes. We just added some organizational "excersises" I guess you'Learning Disability (LD) call it.</p><p></p><p>Then came February. i switched jobs, shifts. now I would be home every night and 3/4 days a week. he doesn't handle change well. Any kind of change..Decided he wasn't going to do any more school work. Decided he wasn't going to take anything to class anymore. physically he was there, but that was it. We would get the bi-weekly progress reports and he would have ALL missing assignments. Nobody notified us.</p><p></p><p>Well, started really checking. Was getting up to 5 calls a day. then i started asking "What led up to this" Found out some outrageous things teachers and other kids were doing.</p><p></p><p>I requested IEP. By then I had joined this board. Read up on Wrights Special Education Laws. IEP information. They tried to tell me there was nothing to change on the IEP. I asked for a FBA. How can they have an IEP if they do not know what the triggers are? in my opinion, Many instances the teachers deliberately set off the triggers then complain that he was yelling. And in other instances, HE was way out of line and deserves consequences. More teachers though. I requested the FBA, and I requested him to be tested by the SD psychologist. I was told no. School pschologist was going to be on leave. I requested the person who would be filling in to do it. I asked why he was not getting any spec. ed. services. They said he is. he is being sent to in school suspension rather than out of school suspension. I asked why he isn't getting any coping/social skills help. They said they don't have to do that. I asked them to contact the SD spec. ed speacialist if they do not have any idea's to keep him in the classroom. Principal was nasty and told me his spec. ed. teacher is a specialist. I repeated myself and said if you cannot find any services for him before you suspend him or remove him from class, speak to the Special Education specialist who works at the district office. Principal said spec. ed. teacher DOES work for the district. (there is a specialist at the District office who they should consult when they do not know what to do). I contacted her. I looked one of difficult child's teachers in the eyes and asked why she keeps having him removed from class when he is quiet and not disrupting anyone. She just looked at me and never said a word. VP jumped in to defend her. I reminded them that his current IEP says to keep him in class as long as he is quiet and not disruptive. Principal kept asking really nasty where I was getting my information. i handed her some papers I printed from Wrights Law. She Threw them back, they went all over. difficult child said something and VP laughed at him and was nasty. needless to say that meeting was continued to the following week. Same outcome following week. He is being tested by the school psychologist this week. FBA should be done (they didn't want to do that either)I have gone to school and asked to walk to a classroom to see what is going on. Principal has told me NO. Ihad to wait in the office. I told him NO, I am going to see myself. What I found was unacceptable, and I took difficult child home.</p><p></p><p>HE has a right to an education and should be IN the classroom.</p><p>I was all gung ho, reading everything, printing everything, re-reading. It has been really rough recently and I have nothing left to fight with. I know SD will try to pull same crap. i know they will say negative things. ALL negative. I know it will be 12 vs 1..me being the one.</p><p>If he is in the class, not disturbing anyone (even if he is refusing to do his work) He is absorbing something because he gets A's on the tests. Just seems to have trouble doing the work. Which we make him do anyway. They are setting him up to fail emotionally with what is said and some situations I have come accross. All will be brought up. All will be denied by them. This IEP is going to benefit difficult child. If it does not, I won't sign it. If it is not followed, I will take action. (easier said than done at this point)</p><p>Request another IEP meeting. Get SD involved. i am calling for the person at the District office who over sees the middle school to be present. I am asking the Special Education specialist to be present. Maybe then principal and vice principal won't be so nasty. better stop babbling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kjs, post: 43534"] My difficult child has only been in Special Education for semester last year and all of this year. already I have found how "they" try to snow you over witht he IEP when you really don't know what to do. Our IEP (third meeting this year upon MY requests) is on Monday. Can't really say the others were really IEP's. In the fall I requested a review of IEP since last years was only a paper that was passed around from teacher to teacher and they wrote whether he participated, not, or was disruptive. And he was suppose to take that home every night. Right. Like that EVER happened. So..in the Fall of this year we went in to review. He seemed to have matured over the summer and just seemed so much better. The only focus at that time was to keep him in class without an outburst of without being disruptive. OK. I can work with that. Had many situations last year where he would "react" to someone pushing him or someone doing something to him, and he would get punished/ suspended but the instigator got nothing. I addressed that. If he is reacting the other should be punished also. If the other didn't instigate there would be NO reaction. Then in January was his scheduled annual IEP review. It was almost the end of second quarter. He earned straight A's that quarter had no issues, liked school. Our only concern was his lack of organizational skills. Left things in other classes, lost everything, books, notebooks, papers, pencils, pens. Was late several times to class because he has to socialize between classes. We just added some organizational "excersises" I guess you'Learning Disability (LD) call it. Then came February. i switched jobs, shifts. now I would be home every night and 3/4 days a week. he doesn't handle change well. Any kind of change..Decided he wasn't going to do any more school work. Decided he wasn't going to take anything to class anymore. physically he was there, but that was it. We would get the bi-weekly progress reports and he would have ALL missing assignments. Nobody notified us. Well, started really checking. Was getting up to 5 calls a day. then i started asking "What led up to this" Found out some outrageous things teachers and other kids were doing. I requested IEP. By then I had joined this board. Read up on Wrights Special Education Laws. IEP information. They tried to tell me there was nothing to change on the IEP. I asked for a FBA. How can they have an IEP if they do not know what the triggers are? in my opinion, Many instances the teachers deliberately set off the triggers then complain that he was yelling. And in other instances, HE was way out of line and deserves consequences. More teachers though. I requested the FBA, and I requested him to be tested by the SD psychologist. I was told no. School pschologist was going to be on leave. I requested the person who would be filling in to do it. I asked why he was not getting any spec. ed. services. They said he is. he is being sent to in school suspension rather than out of school suspension. I asked why he isn't getting any coping/social skills help. They said they don't have to do that. I asked them to contact the SD spec. ed speacialist if they do not have any idea's to keep him in the classroom. Principal was nasty and told me his spec. ed. teacher is a specialist. I repeated myself and said if you cannot find any services for him before you suspend him or remove him from class, speak to the Special Education specialist who works at the district office. Principal said spec. ed. teacher DOES work for the district. (there is a specialist at the District office who they should consult when they do not know what to do). I contacted her. I looked one of difficult child's teachers in the eyes and asked why she keeps having him removed from class when he is quiet and not disrupting anyone. She just looked at me and never said a word. VP jumped in to defend her. I reminded them that his current IEP says to keep him in class as long as he is quiet and not disruptive. Principal kept asking really nasty where I was getting my information. i handed her some papers I printed from Wrights Law. She Threw them back, they went all over. difficult child said something and VP laughed at him and was nasty. needless to say that meeting was continued to the following week. Same outcome following week. He is being tested by the school psychologist this week. FBA should be done (they didn't want to do that either)I have gone to school and asked to walk to a classroom to see what is going on. Principal has told me NO. Ihad to wait in the office. I told him NO, I am going to see myself. What I found was unacceptable, and I took difficult child home. HE has a right to an education and should be IN the classroom. I was all gung ho, reading everything, printing everything, re-reading. It has been really rough recently and I have nothing left to fight with. I know SD will try to pull same crap. i know they will say negative things. ALL negative. I know it will be 12 vs 1..me being the one. If he is in the class, not disturbing anyone (even if he is refusing to do his work) He is absorbing something because he gets A's on the tests. Just seems to have trouble doing the work. Which we make him do anyway. They are setting him up to fail emotionally with what is said and some situations I have come accross. All will be brought up. All will be denied by them. This IEP is going to benefit difficult child. If it does not, I won't sign it. If it is not followed, I will take action. (easier said than done at this point) Request another IEP meeting. Get SD involved. i am calling for the person at the District office who over sees the middle school to be present. I am asking the Special Education specialist to be present. Maybe then principal and vice principal won't be so nasty. better stop babbling. [/QUOTE]
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