Update-Need help with 7 y/o

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Registered: 11-12-2007
Update-Need help with 7 y/o
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Sun, 11-18-2007 - 6:51am

Hi Everyone:


Just wanted to give you guys an update, so sorry didn't do it Friday, been busy working.


First off, I did request a meeting on Wednesday of last week, wrote two letters to the principal and special ed teacher telling her I wanted an IEP meeting, and wanted all his paperwork since he's been there.

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Registered: 01-25-2007
Sun, 11-18-2007 - 8:24am
I went through a similar thing last year. (We haven't gotten report cards yet this year). It was a generic special ed progress report that said his progress toward IEP goals was Satisfactory. Yup. All S's right down the line :D. This was right in the middle of 3 major hitting episodes and one of his goals is not hitting! Huh? I immediately called a meeting and they all sat around the table saying how great he was doing. At our teacher conference the teacher complained mightily about his handwriting, saying it needed to be addressed immediately or it will be "too late". They had previously denied O.T. based on a thirty second eval. I brought that up at the meeting and the teacher looked us straight in the eye and said she had no problem at all with his handwriting! My husband and I were flabbergasted. That is when I started saving all the nasty comments his teacher wrote on his work. I even separate them by cause. When she assigned a Cereal box book report where the kids had to write a summary on the narrow side of the box and she took points off for messy handwriting, I put it in the "DUH, Fine motor skills" pile. Our school district has been sued numerous times by parents of special ed kids that aren't getting service. You would think by now it would just easier for them to do right by these kids but they never learn.
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Registered: 06-25-2003
Sun, 11-18-2007 - 10:18am

Hmmmm.


The games begin.


Document, document, document. If I were you I would put the guts of what you wrote here in a letter. Act confused. If you have any supporting documentation, mention it.


I am no IEP expert, so the Special Ed board may advise you differently (although I know they say to put/get everything in writing), but this the kind of thing I would write:


Dear


I just received Chris's report card, and although I am delighted that he is doing so well. I am confused that his report card does not match a lot of the

-Paula

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