The lies the school tells you at IEP meetings

[Anonymous]

I don't know how these people sleep at night. After a rough year where they slashed teachers and support staff, increased classroom sizes and mixed a lot of children who simply couldn't be in the same classroom together successfully, my son's IEP says he met all his goals.

Which would be wonderful if they hadn't told me he was at the same reading level he was at last year at this time just 3 weeks ago. But now at his IEP, he's increased 7 reading levels!

And they wonder why I filed a complaint with the state.

[Anonymous]

What grade is he in? I have problems on the way high school teachers collect iep data for my DD that a junior

[Anonymous]

Middle school.

[Anonymous]

Preach!

[Anonymous]

Did you have a chance to review the IEP prior to the meeting? If so, you should have questioned that statement on the PLOP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you have a chance to review the IEP prior to the meeting? If so, you should have questioned that statement on the PLOP.

I called them on their shit in the damn meeting. I wanted to hear their excuses.

Now, they can answer to the state.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like my kids 504 meeting where they told me clearly didn't need accommodations because his grades were fine. When I pointed out that all his grades had jumped 2 letters in 2 days because someone went through and "excused " all the assignments for which they failed to provide accommodations, they seemed bewildered as to why that would be a problem.

[Anonymous]

It's all smoke and mirrors and lies. All of it. And no one will ever be held accountable. Get tutors and do as much as you can at home because public education will not accommodate your child, despite the law. There is too much testing and ass covering to deal with children who learn "differently".

- signed a parent who has no faith in any system anymore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's all smoke and mirrors and lies. All of it. And no one will ever be held accountable. Get tutors and do as much as you can at home because public education will not accommodate your child, despite the law. There is too much testing and ass covering to deal with children who learn "differently".

- signed a parent who has no faith in any system anymore

I think you are probably right. But that's why I also filed a state complaint, to help expose all their dirty little shenanigans.

I've also filed with the federal office of civil rights; still waiting to hear from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's all smoke and mirrors and lies. All of it. And no one will ever be held accountable. Get tutors and do as much as you can at home because public education will not accommodate your child, despite the law. There is too much testing and ass covering to deal with children who learn "differently".

- signed a parent who has no faith in any system anymore

that's what we did, at $85 an hour mind you. By that point DS had fallen too far behind so we moved to private this year. And no it's not a walk in the park to pay the tuition but if we don't do it, by the time he's 18 he won't have a chance in hell of having a good, happy and meaningful life. I'm not talking graduating from an Ivy, public university would be fine. Then a job in a field that he's passionate about. I want him to be content, have friends, travel, explore etc. Keeping DS at our public middle school would have doomed him.

[Anonymous]

In our case when DS could only do half the assignments and was failing they wrote into the IEP that he didn't have to do all the assignments. This was instead of adding any services or goals. Suddenly he had a passing grade overnight!

[Anonymous]

As I am considering switching my DC to public middle school in Howard County, MD, I wondered what counties your kids are in? I am only considering this switch because my private school has been very marginal in working through accommodations and I have heard that Howard County does a better than average job with IEPs...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you have a chance to review the IEP prior to the meeting? If so, you should have questioned that statement on the PLOP.

I called them on their shit in the damn meeting. I wanted to hear their excuses.

Now, they can answer to the state.

You sweet thing - how naive you still are! What makes you think they aren't going to lie to the state? That's what the PSL did. Flat out lied. I filed an appeal and provided the contemporaneous notes our advocate took. DENIED! Of course, I wasn't expecting them to find in our favor because I'm jaded. But, our advocate said that just filing the complaint was a black mark against the school's principal and the PSL. I cling to that thought. Of course, now that I've been through the process once, I'll be much better at it the next time. FCPS is molding me into the parent-advocate that I am.

I'm sorry you're going through something similar. We first brought in an advocate for my youngest when he was in FCPS's special ed preschool. The teacher indicated he'd mastered his goals when we knew damn well he hadn't (and it was blantantly obvious). We asked for a speech eval and provided private assessments from his private SLP and his dev ped who had diagnosed a language/communication disorder. You can imagine how stunned we were when the school SLP only observed him for articulation issues. The teacher hadn't provided the school SLP any of the reports we provided and told the school SLP our concern was about his articulation. WTF? I didn't file the state complaint until 4 years later after something even more egregious.

[Anonymous]

Why would someone making a teacher's salary face this? No wonder all the good special educators are leaving the field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone making a teacher's salary face this? No wonder all the good special educators are leaving the field.

THAT'S what you come away with from this thread? How about the teacher who is falsifying the reports?