Teacher forms
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Anonymous
| When you have your kid's teacher fill out a form in them for IEPs and medical professional evaluations, do they share copies with you? It's clear our school doesn't want to and I feel like it is our right to view it. |
Anonymous
| No. |
Anonymous
| But why? Shouldn't we know their honest assessment? |
Anonymous
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This is a tough one. I have had teachers give me their forms and others prefer to mail directly back to our care providers.
I would rather have more accurate data, so if teachers aren't comfortable sharing or think i might argue with them about a rating and so change it if they have to show it to me, I would rather not see it. That said, many of my care providers have given me copies of all of the rating scales after the analysis is complete so that I can have a complete datafile for my child. I feel like i get insight into what the teachers think from the reports. |
Anonymous
No. |
Anonymous
| Ours shares. I sent a form in to DD's teacher two weeks ago with an envelope and told her she was free to seal it. Her reply to me was "I'm not sealing it. We're all in this together." Last year's teacher was awful and kept "forgetting" to fill out the forms. |
Anonymous
Why not? |
Anonymous
| yeah, why shouldn't parent know honest assessment. If assessment not good, shouldn't parent know? |
Anonymous
| If ours sends them to the psychologist, they usually share them with me, or at least discuss them. |
Anonymous
| No. But the neuro-psych's report will probably discuss them. |
Anonymous
| Former teacher here, while I agree the ideal would be that parents get a copy and that the parent teacher relationship is a team effort, I definitely encountered situations where I was grateful for the confidentiality (parents were argumentative or in denial or alternatively were pushing for a diagnosis for something we just weren't seeing at school etc.). If you want honest answers, confidentiality is necessary. |
Anonymous
While I get that ends up happening, I feel like that is more of the parent's problem than the teacher's. Meanwhile, for those of us who highly respected the teachers and their experiences, it would be very valuable to know and see. Also, everything that is written about my child should be my business. |
Anonymous
If you respect the teachers and their experience, they probably respect you too and will give you a copy 
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Anonymous
If it's a form that the teacher fills out for the school, then it's a medical record and you are entitled to see it under FERPA. In MCPS, the team would be required to share the Teacher's IEP Referral form as part the package of materials they have to give you 5 days before the IEP meeting. IME, forms to medical professionals are different. Some schools may require that their teachers fill them out and send them directly to the evaluating doctor. I think this is to ensure the integrity of the answers -- that the teacher doesn't feel pressured to answer in a certain way and that you do not have the opportunity to alter the forms. But, as another PP said, usually the evaluating doctor will provide pretty detailed information about the teacher's input when the evaluator writes the report. Presumably, they're sending it to YOUR medical professional that you chose, so you can always ask the medical person directly to see or summarize it for you. On the other hand, if the "medical professional" who is doing the evaluation is the school psychologist, then any form filled out by the teacher would be an "educational record" covered under FERPA and you should have a right to see it. |
Anonymous
See the teacher's response above. |