Do schools care about prior written notices

[Anonymous]

We are at a terrible elementary school, leaving next year. After a many months long fight, we finally got our autistic child an IEP.

The school team (notorious for being shady and denying Black and Latino children services in particular) insisted on having another analysis of existing data before the IEP meeting. Since they had written us an email saying they wouldn’t fight our report from a premiere institution, we didn’t fight them. They tried to say our child didn’t qualify for services based largely a progress report drafted by the director of special Ed (who admitted she never worked with out kid) saying she mastered all the goals.

They added a prior written notice to the file saying that the team agreed kiddo didn’t need an IEP but gave us one bc we “insisted”. There are other things there that are straight up lies.

I plan on going nuclear on the sped team (talking to the board, director, etc) but wonder if it’s worth fighting to remove this prior written notice.

[Anonymous]

The prior written notice should include things that were addressed during the meeting. So whatever the team proposed and/or rejected would be written in the PWN. If you discussed during the meeting that you wanted special education services and the school said they didn’t agree but “gave in” then yeah, that would be documented on the PWN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are at a terrible elementary school, leaving next year. After a many months long fight, we finally got our autistic child an IEP.

The school team (notorious for being shady and denying Black and Latino children services in particular) insisted on having another analysis of existing data before the IEP meeting. Since they had written us an email saying they wouldn’t fight our report from a premiere institution, we didn’t fight them. They tried to say our child didn’t qualify for services based largely a progress report drafted by the director of special Ed (who admitted she never worked with out kid) saying she mastered all the goals.

They added a prior written notice to the file saying that the team agreed kiddo didn’t need an IEP but gave us one bc we “insisted”. There are other things there that are straight up lies.

I plan on going nuclear on the sped team (talking to the board, director, etc) but wonder if it’s worth fighting to remove this prior written notice.

Good god. We were in legal action against our district at the time we moved to a different district and the director of sped at the original district sent a letter to the new district saying we would be trying to get IDEA eligibility but they already knew he wasn't eligible (reason for the legal action that was started before we moved, and new district started preparing for eval before we even asked, when they got his records). I didn't see the letter until a few years later, but the district we came from had teachers saying things like special needs kids should be in private schools or home schooled not in public school, and sped people who insisted that sped kids should never be expected to earn better than a C.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are at a terrible elementary school, leaving next year. After a many months long fight, we finally got our autistic child an IEP.

The school team (notorious for being shady and denying Black and Latino children services in particular) insisted on having another analysis of existing data before the IEP meeting. Since they had written us an email saying they wouldn’t fight our report from a premiere institution, we didn’t fight them. They tried to say our child didn’t qualify for services based largely a progress report drafted by the director of special Ed (who admitted she never worked with out kid) saying she mastered all the goals.

They added a prior written notice to the file saying that the team agreed kiddo didn’t need an IEP but gave us one bc we “insisted”. There are other things there that are straight up lies.

I plan on going nuclear on the sped team (talking to the board, director, etc) but wonder if it’s worth fighting to remove this prior written notice.

Good god. We were in legal action against our district at the time we moved to a different district and the director of sped at the original district sent a letter to the new district saying we would be trying to get IDEA eligibility but they already knew he wasn't eligible (reason for the legal action that was started before we moved, and new district started preparing for eval before we even asked, when they got his records). I didn't see the letter until a few years later, but the district we came from had teachers saying things like special needs kids should be in private schools or home schooled not in public school, and sped people who insisted that sped kids should never be expected to earn better than a C.

Op here. Yes this is very similar to what we experienced. Our autistic child needs help interpreting certain things but is very intelligent. I will send a letter to my child’s new school letting them know what we experienced.

I heard from other parents since posting this that they are planning legal action against the school for similar reasons. I’ll be speaking to the director to bring a formal grievance against the director and the advocate. I think they’re unlikely to be at the school for very long anyway but I appreciate the heads up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The prior written notice should include things that were addressed during the meeting. So whatever the team proposed and/or rejected would be written in the PWN. If you discussed during the meeting that you wanted special education services and the school said they didn’t agree but “gave in” then yeah, that would be documented on the PWN.

They included a number of things that were not discussed at the meeting, including straight up lies. I don’t mind them saying there was disagreement but the lies have to go. Thanks for letting me know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are at a terrible elementary school, leaving next year. After a many months long fight, we finally got our autistic child an IEP.

The school team (notorious for being shady and denying Black and Latino children services in particular) insisted on having another analysis of existing data before the IEP meeting. Since they had written us an email saying they wouldn’t fight our report from a premiere institution, we didn’t fight them. They tried to say our child didn’t qualify for services based largely a progress report drafted by the director of special Ed (who admitted she never worked with out kid) saying she mastered all the goals.

They added a prior written notice to the file saying that the team agreed kiddo didn’t need an IEP but gave us one bc we “insisted”. There are other things there that are straight up lies.

I plan on going nuclear on the sped team (talking to the board, director, etc) but wonder if it’s worth fighting to remove this prior written notice.

Good god. We were in legal action against our district at the time we moved to a different district and the director of sped at the original district sent a letter to the new district saying we would be trying to get IDEA eligibility but they already knew he wasn't eligible (reason for the legal action that was started before we moved, and new district started preparing for eval before we even asked, when they got his records). I didn't see the letter until a few years later, but the district we came from had teachers saying things like special needs kids should be in private schools or home schooled not in public school, and sped people who insisted that sped kids should never be expected to earn better than a C.

Op here. Yes this is very similar to what we experienced. Our autistic child needs help interpreting certain things but is very intelligent. I will send a letter to my child’s new school letting them know what we experienced.

I heard from other parents since posting this that they are planning legal action against the school for similar reasons. I’ll be speaking to the director to bring a formal grievance against the director and the advocate. I think they’re unlikely to be at the school for very long anyway but I appreciate the heads up.

I meant I’m speaking to the director of the school about the director of special education.

Im also considering suing the advocate for fraudulent inducement personally. I think she would love to pay attorney fees since I had to pay for them due to her behavior.