Does your child's teacher follow his or her IEP?

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  • micO
  on Oct. 19, 2009 at 7:43 AM

• Well, having more kids on IEPs doesn't really make the school follow the plans much better!

  In T's school there are many kids on IEPs and they still don't really follow his plan. We had a meeting 2 weeks ago and decided on a plan and they are yet to follow any of it.
  They were supposed to talk with his English teacher and bring her up to date, help her understand how exactly she's to modify his homework and talk to her about reducing the workload - nothing was done. They were also supposed to talk to her about all the zero marks she gave T on assignments he was "late" on and the last one where she told the class to hand in the homework a certain day and they had no class that day, so he handed it the following day and she gave him a 0 for it because he was late (she expected him to do what exactly? understand on his own that he needed to run around school and look for her? even the guidance counselor wasn't sure what he was supposed to do, so an Aspie kid couldn't possibly be expected to figure this out on his own with no instruction). ANyway, no one talked to her.

  I am angry!

  I'm giving them one more week and that's it!

  
  

  Michal
  

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  • dewey
  on Oct. 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM

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  Quoting micO:
  
  

  Well, having more kids on IEPs doesn't really make the school follow the plans much better!

  In T's school there are many kids on IEPs and they still don't really follow his plan. We had a meeting 2 weeks ago and decided on a plan and they are yet to follow any of it.
  They were supposed to talk with his English teacher and bring her up to date, help her understand how exactly she's to modify his homework and talk to her about reducing the workload - nothing was done. They were also supposed to talk to her about all the zero marks she gave T on assignments he was "late" on and the last one where she told the class to hand in the homework a certain day and they had no class that day, so he handed it the following day and she gave him a 0 for it because he was late (she expected him to do what exactly? understand on his own that he needed to run around school and look for her? even the guidance counselor wasn't sure what he was supposed to do, so an Aspie kid couldn't possibly be expected to figure this out on his own with no instruction). ANyway, no one talked to her.

  I am angry!

  I'm giving them one more week and that's it!

   

  Michal
  

  It is so frustrating we spoke to his ESE specialist last week and she is suppose to speak with the teacher, still his grade for the test has not changed.  The sh*t will hit the fan if my son does not get an A in the class because of the teacher's mistake.  My son has an 89 and it is the last three days of the marking period, all he needs is a 90 for  the A and he has worked extremely hard in this class.  The school hates when my husband gets involved "the attorney" they always use that crap on us. That my husband intimidates the teachers because he is a trail attorney and they are just poor little teachers.  If they would do their job we would not have to call the school or e-mail them now would we. 

  It just seems that some school can handle many students with IEP's  and other schools can not even handle three students with an IEP.  I guess we just have to keep on top of this.  I would set up conference with the English teacher and talk to her directly.  Many times we by-pass the ESE specialist and go direct to the source, no middle man.

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