Why are so many special ed administrators clue less

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a high schooler and have been involved in the IEP process for 9 years. I'm articulate, educated about the laws, and an never intimidated by school administrators so the outcome has always ended up being appropriate. I can not believe though how many times someone's whose profession is to help special needs kids tries to diminish accommodations or services or clearly states false information about what schools are or are not required to provide.

Why? The level of competence is something that could be easily addressed with basic training. When its intentional, I also wonder why. Is there some reward handed out if a special educator negotiates back services?

Because they work for the school district not you and have probably budgets and a target number of service hours they are not supposed to exceed across all students.

That isn't supposed to be how it works under the law, but in reality, that's the way it goes much of the time.

They should be working for the tax payers and the children should be the main concern.

To be one of the richest counties in the US, It’s terrible the way fcps treats it’s students

[Anonymous]

Taxpayers don’t care about meeting the needs of all kids. Not all taxpayers are parents and many would rather funds go to infrastructure or tax cuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taxpayers don’t care about meeting the needs of all kids. Not all taxpayers are parents and many would rather funds go to infrastructure or tax cuts.

ARL parents do not care at all about sped kids (unless they have one) and vilify them sometimes.