nvts
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Hi! difficult child 2 was evaluated last week (trying to move him from NYC Spec. Ed. District 75 to District 31 Gen Ed Special Education. program) his IQ dropped from High Avg./Superior to Avg. over the last 18 mos. Without going into horrendous detail, it is due to the teacher that he was placed with.
Basically, difficult child 2, even with this toad of a teacher, had advanced in many many of his goals/objectives both academically and behaviorally.
Due to the documentable incompetance and abusive tendancies of the teacher, I and another Mom had a meeting with the Asst. Principal and both our sons Guidance Counselor to discuss what was going on.
The teacher was spoken to and things backed off ever so slightly.
We advised the AP that we were going to file a state complaint if she was assigned our children for the summer session. The teacher was moved to another site and both boys are doing beautifully.
In the meantime, difficult child 2 for most of April, all of May and June was getting daily points (Power of Choice Program) of 48, 49 or 50 out of 50 points for the day. These points are directly associated with positive behavior. We were thrilled with his performance.
I got his final report card and she dropped his grades (both Academic and Behavioral) by an average of 2 points (in NYC, Elem. school children are graded with a 1-4 system. 1 means below grade level, 2 is approaching, 3 solidly in grade and 4 above).
I fought with her and won, however, she provided the IEP team with a scathing review of him for the evaluation. The psychologist weighted her write up heavily within the Psychological/Academic report.
Knowing that she was going to be pulling some kind of garbage, I got his guidance counselor to write a letter of recommendation.
I'm anticipating a fight on this, do you have any words of wisdom, legal precidents, etc. where a parent felt that the evaluation by the teacher was biased and what recourse came about?
Thanks!
Beth
Basically, difficult child 2, even with this toad of a teacher, had advanced in many many of his goals/objectives both academically and behaviorally.
Due to the documentable incompetance and abusive tendancies of the teacher, I and another Mom had a meeting with the Asst. Principal and both our sons Guidance Counselor to discuss what was going on.
The teacher was spoken to and things backed off ever so slightly.
We advised the AP that we were going to file a state complaint if she was assigned our children for the summer session. The teacher was moved to another site and both boys are doing beautifully.
In the meantime, difficult child 2 for most of April, all of May and June was getting daily points (Power of Choice Program) of 48, 49 or 50 out of 50 points for the day. These points are directly associated with positive behavior. We were thrilled with his performance.
I got his final report card and she dropped his grades (both Academic and Behavioral) by an average of 2 points (in NYC, Elem. school children are graded with a 1-4 system. 1 means below grade level, 2 is approaching, 3 solidly in grade and 4 above).
I fought with her and won, however, she provided the IEP team with a scathing review of him for the evaluation. The psychologist weighted her write up heavily within the Psychological/Academic report.
Knowing that she was going to be pulling some kind of garbage, I got his guidance counselor to write a letter of recommendation.
I'm anticipating a fight on this, do you have any words of wisdom, legal precidents, etc. where a parent felt that the evaluation by the teacher was biased and what recourse came about?
Thanks!
Beth