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Officially - who does it fall on to schedule the IEP meeting?
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 453585" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Someone should be designated as a Special Education services director (or something along those lines) at the school. If no one at the school is giving you timely responses or responding as they should (ie, by scheduling a requested IEP meeting in a reasonable amount of time- I think it's 2 weeks), then it falls on the principal's shoulders only because he/she must have a chance to "fix" any problems within the school. If the principal doesn't respond accordingly, then the complaint and issue can be dealt with on the school district level- as in the Director of Special Education at the sd admin building. At least that was what was explained to me when I skipped the principal and mailed my certified letters straight to half the sd admin and school board and copying a Special Education attny. Even so, that did get us someone from the sd's Special Education dept. at iep meetings for the remainder of time that difficult child went to public school and that did help- I didn't win everything I wanted for difficult child but the lies and BS came to a screeching halt and the lady from the sd occasionally had some great ideas that none of the rest of us had thought of.</p><p></p><p>Shari, I'm not sure if this is true and it never mattered much in my son's case but the Department of Juvenile Justice sd has told me repetitively that a kid (even a kid with an iep) MUST have a certain amount of educational hours in order to get credit for a certain class. IOW, if it's a year long Science class at 45-50 mins each and they cut the time in half and are only willing to provide half that time, I'd be asking if that meets your state's requirements for the minimum requirement for that class. (Don't even ask your sd that- call your state DOE. You can probably ask them several other questions about the legality of your sd and might save yourself a few bucks for an attny.)</p><p></p><p> I have a feeling that they might come back and say their only choices are this schedule or putting Wee back to a lower grade but they are the ones who aren't rising to the occasion, in my humble opinion. I'm with Sue though, this has been going on so long that I can't see them even taking you serious without an attny on your arm at this point. I think I'd already be at the point of giving up and just doing things their way or moving or getting an attny and going for the fight. I would be wayyyyyy over any more nasty letters, but that's just me. I have reached that point with parole/probation and other CSU people regarding my son so maybe my patience is just completely gone with this type of koi. I don't want it dominating my life anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 453585, member: 3699"] Someone should be designated as a Special Education services director (or something along those lines) at the school. If no one at the school is giving you timely responses or responding as they should (ie, by scheduling a requested IEP meeting in a reasonable amount of time- I think it's 2 weeks), then it falls on the principal's shoulders only because he/she must have a chance to "fix" any problems within the school. If the principal doesn't respond accordingly, then the complaint and issue can be dealt with on the school district level- as in the Director of Special Education at the sd admin building. At least that was what was explained to me when I skipped the principal and mailed my certified letters straight to half the sd admin and school board and copying a Special Education attny. Even so, that did get us someone from the sd's Special Education dept. at iep meetings for the remainder of time that difficult child went to public school and that did help- I didn't win everything I wanted for difficult child but the lies and BS came to a screeching halt and the lady from the sd occasionally had some great ideas that none of the rest of us had thought of. Shari, I'm not sure if this is true and it never mattered much in my son's case but the Department of Juvenile Justice sd has told me repetitively that a kid (even a kid with an iep) MUST have a certain amount of educational hours in order to get credit for a certain class. IOW, if it's a year long Science class at 45-50 mins each and they cut the time in half and are only willing to provide half that time, I'd be asking if that meets your state's requirements for the minimum requirement for that class. (Don't even ask your sd that- call your state DOE. You can probably ask them several other questions about the legality of your sd and might save yourself a few bucks for an attny.) I have a feeling that they might come back and say their only choices are this schedule or putting Wee back to a lower grade but they are the ones who aren't rising to the occasion, in my humble opinion. I'm with Sue though, this has been going on so long that I can't see them even taking you serious without an attny on your arm at this point. I think I'd already be at the point of giving up and just doing things their way or moving or getting an attny and going for the fight. I would be wayyyyyy over any more nasty letters, but that's just me. I have reached that point with parole/probation and other CSU people regarding my son so maybe my patience is just completely gone with this type of koi. I don't want it dominating my life anymore. [/QUOTE]
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