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<blockquote data-quote="mistmouse" data-source="post: 149710" data-attributes="member: 289"><p>Martie, </p><p> </p><p>I was afraid that is what you would say. I will continue to write my letters objecting to the attorney every time I get my invitation to the IEP and am aware they have invited an attorney. I will make sure it gets into the parent input of every IEP that I feel intimidated to the point of not being able to meaningfully participate in my daughter's IEP, then I will write my post-IEP letter stating I feel this is retaliation, discrimination, and intimidation.</p><p> </p><p>I am still going to request mediation so that I have that record that they are bringing an attorney to the meetings when they know full well that I cannot have counsel to represent me.</p><p> </p><p>As for going alone, well, I have nobody to go with me, so the last two meetings since we were no longer in litigation, I have gone alone. There are no local advocate groups. However, I do have the psychologist who has been seeing my daughter for years, and who by the HO's order has to be a part of the IEP as the behavior consultant, and she has my daughter's best interests in mind. At the last IEP meeting, she asked for a break when the attorney was railroading things and she could see I was overwhelmed (partly because I was sick, and partly because I had no idea they were going to push for a BIP that would remove my daughter to alternative school if she could not meet their demands). </p><p> </p><p>Thanks for replying, and I wish there was something I could do to put a stop to this. It is small comfort that our situation is used as a teaching tool, but if what we have gone through can be used to stop even one more child from having to suffer the same fate, it is good.</p><p> </p><p>mistmouse</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mistmouse, post: 149710, member: 289"] Martie, I was afraid that is what you would say. I will continue to write my letters objecting to the attorney every time I get my invitation to the IEP and am aware they have invited an attorney. I will make sure it gets into the parent input of every IEP that I feel intimidated to the point of not being able to meaningfully participate in my daughter's IEP, then I will write my post-IEP letter stating I feel this is retaliation, discrimination, and intimidation. I am still going to request mediation so that I have that record that they are bringing an attorney to the meetings when they know full well that I cannot have counsel to represent me. As for going alone, well, I have nobody to go with me, so the last two meetings since we were no longer in litigation, I have gone alone. There are no local advocate groups. However, I do have the psychologist who has been seeing my daughter for years, and who by the HO's order has to be a part of the IEP as the behavior consultant, and she has my daughter's best interests in mind. At the last IEP meeting, she asked for a break when the attorney was railroading things and she could see I was overwhelmed (partly because I was sick, and partly because I had no idea they were going to push for a BIP that would remove my daughter to alternative school if she could not meet their demands). Thanks for replying, and I wish there was something I could do to put a stop to this. It is small comfort that our situation is used as a teaching tool, but if what we have gone through can be used to stop even one more child from having to suffer the same fate, it is good. mistmouse [/QUOTE]
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