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<blockquote data-quote="TiredSoul" data-source="post: 662581" data-attributes="member: 3930"><p>Crud I typed a response on my phone and lost the entire thing! Let me try this again....</p><p></p><p>I have a 7-8 page complaint written to the state that I have not yet sent. The reason I have not sent it yet is because I do not think it will do anything to change the situation. Sure they might get procedural violations for failing to schedule an IEP meeting one time, and for not giving us a copy of the procedural safeguards, but it will only piss them off more and in turn will make things worse for my son.</p><p></p><p>This is a middle school (7th/8th grades). My son will be in 8th grade this fall. Apparently this school has only two sped teachers. One teaches a social skills class and a study skills class - the other teaches math/reading intervention type classes. <strong>The only "services" my son gets is 50 minutes daily of SDI in social/emotional/behavioral </strong>and therefore they have plugged him into the study skills class (as most of his issues center around organization and exec func deficits). The teacher he has IS the problem. She is also his IEP case manager. <strong>I WANT HIM OUT OF HER CLASS. </strong> I have made my concerns known over the entire course of the last school year. I am told there are no other options for him.</p><p></p><p>So the only ways I know of to get him out of her class are:</p><p><strong>revoke consent for sped</strong></p><p><strong>change to 504 plan and request different case manager</strong></p><p>change schools within district</p><p>change schools out of district</p><p>online/home school</p><p></p><p>Right now the only options doable are the first two. He is getting NOTHING positive out of being in that class. In fact for as many years as I have fought for him, there really has been no benefit. He is a smart kid - he simply just needs extra time to do his school work because he won't do it at home after having suffered through school for 6.5 hours per day. And he needs someone to help him organize what's what and make sure he has what he needs and is doing what he is supposed to be doing. He needs a secretary. Lol. He also needs help with planning and initiating / getting started on assignments in class, especially if he doesn't want to do it. (Hard to motivate to do boring/uninteresting tasks.) They spent the year doing crosswords and word searches in that class. Waste of time and I fought long and hard and have made previous posts about all the crap they took out of his IEP and changed so they wouldn't have to do anything. It's a joke and I am not going to go back over all of that.</p><p></p><p>As far as behavior and discipline are concerned, they do not discipline any differently for someone with a disability. We did a mock manifestation determination (it had not yet been 10 days suspended) and they determined many of his behaviors are due to his disability. But that did not make them go easier on him or discipline him differently. We were told many times by the principal her hands are tied and she has to discipline him according to her guidelines and its progressive based on number of incidents.</p><p></p><p>So here we are - one year left in this school with this teacher ---as well as the knowledge that his IEP has never served him positively in 8 years of school - what do I do? I will not deal with that woman one more second.</p><p></p><p>In addition, my son hates being in that class and feeling like something is wrong with him.</p><p></p><p>Now I am leaning towards transitioning to a 504 and getting the proper accommodations in place. I just have a feeling the principal will tell me I am stuck with this woman as his case manager and I will have to fight for the accommodations that I was fighting for before with no success. At least he would be out of her class and next year at the high school I could sit down with that team and revise his accommodations.</p><p></p><p>504 plans still offer protection with regard to discipline, right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TiredSoul, post: 662581, member: 3930"] Crud I typed a response on my phone and lost the entire thing! Let me try this again.... I have a 7-8 page complaint written to the state that I have not yet sent. The reason I have not sent it yet is because I do not think it will do anything to change the situation. Sure they might get procedural violations for failing to schedule an IEP meeting one time, and for not giving us a copy of the procedural safeguards, but it will only piss them off more and in turn will make things worse for my son. This is a middle school (7th/8th grades). My son will be in 8th grade this fall. Apparently this school has only two sped teachers. One teaches a social skills class and a study skills class - the other teaches math/reading intervention type classes. [B]The only "services" my son gets is 50 minutes daily of SDI in social/emotional/behavioral [/B]and therefore they have plugged him into the study skills class (as most of his issues center around organization and exec func deficits). The teacher he has IS the problem. She is also his IEP case manager. [B]I WANT HIM OUT OF HER CLASS. [/B] I have made my concerns known over the entire course of the last school year. I am told there are no other options for him. So the only ways I know of to get him out of her class are: [B]revoke consent for sped change to 504 plan and request different case manager[/B] change schools within district change schools out of district online/home school Right now the only options doable are the first two. He is getting NOTHING positive out of being in that class. In fact for as many years as I have fought for him, there really has been no benefit. He is a smart kid - he simply just needs extra time to do his school work because he won't do it at home after having suffered through school for 6.5 hours per day. And he needs someone to help him organize what's what and make sure he has what he needs and is doing what he is supposed to be doing. He needs a secretary. Lol. He also needs help with planning and initiating / getting started on assignments in class, especially if he doesn't want to do it. (Hard to motivate to do boring/uninteresting tasks.) They spent the year doing crosswords and word searches in that class. Waste of time and I fought long and hard and have made previous posts about all the crap they took out of his IEP and changed so they wouldn't have to do anything. It's a joke and I am not going to go back over all of that. As far as behavior and discipline are concerned, they do not discipline any differently for someone with a disability. We did a mock manifestation determination (it had not yet been 10 days suspended) and they determined many of his behaviors are due to his disability. But that did not make them go easier on him or discipline him differently. We were told many times by the principal her hands are tied and she has to discipline him according to her guidelines and its progressive based on number of incidents. So here we are - one year left in this school with this teacher ---as well as the knowledge that his IEP has never served him positively in 8 years of school - what do I do? I will not deal with that woman one more second. In addition, my son hates being in that class and feeling like something is wrong with him. Now I am leaning towards transitioning to a 504 and getting the proper accommodations in place. I just have a feeling the principal will tell me I am stuck with this woman as his case manager and I will have to fight for the accommodations that I was fighting for before with no success. At least he would be out of her class and next year at the high school I could sit down with that team and revise his accommodations. 504 plans still offer protection with regard to discipline, right? [/QUOTE]
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