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Teacher does not agree with- IEP
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<blockquote data-quote="keista" data-source="post: 428871" data-attributes="member: 11965"><p>I'm sorry, let me clarify. If a teacher or staff member actually used the words "checked out", it would imply that they believe your child is in some sort of altered state - on drugs, having a seizure, overwhelmed, depressed etc. I spent an hour today trying to get any IEP team member to use ANY type of IEP appropriate phrase regarding my son "checking out". I offered up a variety of phrases including avoidance technique, depression, frustration, meltdown, shutdown, checked out, distracted, overwhelmed, poor transition, cognitive malfunction, cognitive anomoly, but they all insisted that he just wasn't "trying hard enough", and if he only "tried harder" he could pass math. I bit my tongue so many times, I think I need a transplant. Good news is that this was just a meeting to evaluate if he needed more evaluations.</p><p></p><p>I am no where close to being an IEP pro, but do believe if I (you, we) can figure out how to get them to worry about the WHY, we'd all have better IEPs.</p><p></p><p>Really? No lightbulb smiley? </p><p>Maybe next time they ask my kid to try harder to keep himself focused on his work, I'll ask them to try harder to figure out how to help him stay focused on his work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keista, post: 428871, member: 11965"] I'm sorry, let me clarify. If a teacher or staff member actually used the words "checked out", it would imply that they believe your child is in some sort of altered state - on drugs, having a seizure, overwhelmed, depressed etc. I spent an hour today trying to get any IEP team member to use ANY type of IEP appropriate phrase regarding my son "checking out". I offered up a variety of phrases including avoidance technique, depression, frustration, meltdown, shutdown, checked out, distracted, overwhelmed, poor transition, cognitive malfunction, cognitive anomoly, but they all insisted that he just wasn't "trying hard enough", and if he only "tried harder" he could pass math. I bit my tongue so many times, I think I need a transplant. Good news is that this was just a meeting to evaluate if he needed more evaluations. I am no where close to being an IEP pro, but do believe if I (you, we) can figure out how to get them to worry about the WHY, we'd all have better IEPs. Really? No lightbulb smiley? Maybe next time they ask my kid to try harder to keep himself focused on his work, I'll ask them to try harder to figure out how to help him stay focused on his work. [/QUOTE]
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