Lies my IEP Team Told Me- let’s compile

[Anonymous]

Inspired by the history book of similar tote- let’s compile a list of the most common lies we have heard in IEP meetings. This could help parents and staff members realize when they are being played or engaging in illegal or immoral behavior.

-Your child has to be failing before they are eligible for an IEP.

-Your dyslexic child has to spend a year in RTI before we can consider other interventions.

-It is better for us to pull pieces from different reading programs to best support your child and not name any of them in the IEP.

[Anonymous]

If you fill out all the medical forms and send doctor prescribed medication to school, we will make sure your child gets that medication daily. (I hope this isn't a common one, however!)

[Anonymous]

It is true that we are not allowed to name a specific program in the IEP goals because if you were to move or transfer to another school that didn’t offer Wilson or OG they would be unable to comply with the IEP. Instead, we will put in the notes that “student benefits from a multi sensory intensive phonics pattern instruction such one based on Orton Gillingham”. And in the present levels we will put that student is receiving and benefitting from “specific program”. However this can’t be part of the goal or indicated in the service hours.

It’s the same as when we say a student’s reading level will improve from X level to Y level we have to indicate “or equivalent” because schools all over use many different text leveling benchmark systems.
It’s not a lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is true that we are not allowed to name a specific program in the IEP goals because if you were to move or transfer to another school that didn’t offer Wilson or OG they would be unable to comply with the IEP. Instead, we will put in the notes that “student benefits from a multi sensory intensive phonics pattern instruction such one based on Orton Gillingham”. And in the present levels we will put that student is receiving and benefitting from “specific program”. However this can’t be part of the goal or indicated in the service hours.

It’s the same as when we say a student’s reading level will improve from X level to Y level we have to indicate “or equivalent” because schools all over use many different text leveling benchmark systems.
It’s not a lie.

Actually specific programs can be named in the IEP. What you described is a practice or perhaps district policy, but not law.

[Anonymous]

At a local screening meeting (before the IEP stage) that there was insufficient evidence for special education testing even though DC's teachers listed out DC's difficulties and a private evaluation demonstrating slow processing speed, poor memory recall and anxiety. That lead to 3 year delay intervention. Three years later at the subsequent local screening meeting with an attorney advocate, within 15 minutes of the meeting, there was "sufficient" evidence for evaluation and we got the ball rolling and it started rolling quickly. Wish I had known then what I know now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is true that we are not allowed to name a specific program in the IEP goals because if you were to move or transfer to another school that didn’t offer Wilson or OG they would be unable to comply with the IEP. Instead, we will put in the notes that “student benefits from a multi sensory intensive phonics pattern instruction such one based on Orton Gillingham”. And in the present levels we will put that student is receiving and benefitting from “specific program”. However this can’t be part of the goal or indicated in the service hours.

It’s the same as when we say a student’s reading level will improve from X level to Y level we have to indicate “or equivalent” because schools all over use many different text leveling benchmark systems.
It’s not a lie.

Actually specific programs can be named in the IEP. What you described is a practice or perhaps district policy, but not law.

Hence why it is a lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is true that we are not allowed to name a specific program in the IEP goals because if you were to move or transfer to another school that didn’t offer Wilson or OG they would be unable to comply with the IEP. Instead, we will put in the notes that “student benefits from a multi sensory intensive phonics pattern instruction such one based on Orton Gillingham”. And in the present levels we will put that student is receiving and benefitting from “specific program”. However this can’t be part of the goal or indicated in the service hours.

It’s the same as when we say a student’s reading level will improve from X level to Y level we have to indicate “or equivalent” because schools all over use many different text leveling benchmark systems.
It’s not a lie.

Actually specific programs can be named in the IEP. What you described is a practice or perhaps district policy, but not law.

Hence why it is a lie.

"We aren't allowed to" doesn't mean it's law, so saying that you aren't allowed to do something because it's district policy, or because your principal/LEA won't sign off on it, isn't a lie.

[Anonymous]

The private placement process will go quickly. (Child was out of school for a year while fcps dicked around)

[Anonymous]

I don’t recall any lies in elementary, middle or high school in MCPS, for our teen with special needs and an IEP.

Sorry, but the incessant bashing of special needs services in schools is getting old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I don’t recall any lies in elementary, middle or high school in MCPS, for our teen with special needs and an IEP.

Sorry, but the incessant bashing of special needs services in schools is getting old.

Can you share the name of your school? I'm desperate to move to a school where my DC can receive services. I've spent thousands of $$ for services that school should be providing under FAPE and I'm overwhelmed financially, emotionally, and physically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don’t recall any lies in elementary, middle or high school in MCPS, for our teen with special needs and an IEP.

Sorry, but the incessant bashing of special needs services in schools is getting old.

Can you share the name of your school? I'm desperate to move to a school where my DC can receive services. I've spent thousands of $$ for services that school should be providing under FAPE and I'm overwhelmed financially, emotionally, and physically.

Bethesda elementary
North Bethesda middle (out of cluster program)
Walter Johnson high (out of cluster program)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is true that we are not allowed to name a specific program in the IEP goals because if you were to move or transfer to another school that didn’t offer Wilson or OG they would be unable to comply with the IEP. Instead, we will put in the notes that “student benefits from a multi sensory intensive phonics pattern instruction such one based on Orton Gillingham”. And in the present levels we will put that student is receiving and benefitting from “specific program”. However this can’t be part of the goal or indicated in the service hours.

It’s the same as when we say a student’s reading level will improve from X level to Y level we have to indicate “or equivalent” because schools all over use many different text leveling benchmark systems.
It’s not a lie.

Actually specific programs can be named in the IEP. What you described is a practice or perhaps district policy, but not law.

Hence why it is a lie.

"We aren't allowed to" doesn't mean it's law, so saying that you aren't allowed to do something because it's district policy, or because your principal/LEA won't sign off on it, isn't a lie.

If it’s a district policy, it should be cited.
If being “not allowed to” is to cover butts and not piss off upper echelon decision makers, that’s still a lie.

If you’re not telling people the truth or half truths, you’re lying.

[Anonymous]

This is the most reading intervention support we can provide for your child ..... only to find out if I had an advocate with me services would increase by more than a factor of 3.
[we went from 90 minutes to 5 hours once we we got an advocate - and when we talked to friends with kids with a similar profile but a smaller gap in performance, they had been receiving 5 hours for 2 years]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda elementary
North Bethesda middle (out of cluster program)
Walter Johnson high (out of cluster program)

I would say you got lucky. We were at a different Elementary, but the same middle and high school, and we're not so lucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I don’t recall any lies in elementary, middle or high school in MCPS, for our teen with special needs and an IEP.

Sorry, but the incessant bashing of special needs services in schools is getting old.

Your kid got good services all the way through high school. You are the exception to the rule.
You don’t need to reply or even read these posts.