Nottingham?

[Anonymous]

Just moved to the Nottingham district. My kid has an IEP for speech only. We just found out we got into the Private school that we applied to in January. What would you do?

[Anonymous]

What private? Nottingham is hard to beat.

[Anonymous]

Do you want to go to this private school later? If you turn them down once, they won’t offer admission again.

[Anonymous]

You won’t get speech through APS if you go to private. If you are willing to do private speech either by paying extra and having it at the private (some privates offer this; not all), or if you’re willing to do private speech outside of school and want to stick with private, do that.

Speech only IEP is a pretty minor issue generally and I wouldn’t lump those kids in with the struggling students whose parents are fighting for many other services. Depending on the severity of your child’s speech needs.

[Anonymous]

IME, speech therapy through the school was not great. We always supplemented with private lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IME, speech therapy through the school was not great. We always supplemented with private lessons.

I’ve found that to be the case in every public school I’ve worked in. Speech therapy winds up being for the most extreme cases, and speech & language pathologists are spread very thin.

[Anonymous]

We have been very pleased with the principal and with the speech therapist. The principal has handled Covid really well. We feel like she responsive, receptive and forthcoming. We also have been getting more one-on-one speech therapy this year, perhaps due to it being virtual. We've seen great improvement. The speech therapist is new to APS.

[Anonymous]

She supervised our requested IEP meeting of my young child at McKinley and while she allowed for accommodations, she did not allow the school to do an evaluation or give us and IEP or a 504 plan. Several years down the road now and my child has been diagnosed with HFA, ADHD, and anxiety. An evaluation that early could have been so helpful, but she said no, and I stupidly trusted the school to have our best interests at heart (and waited years to get another private evaluation) after getting this hard no from the school early. But my kid was just suffering quietly, wasn't failing anything, and wasn't hitting anyone or disrupting the class, so we didn't get what we needed and my kid spent years blaming herself for struggling when the struggle wasn't her fault.

Parents of girls beware: girls will often internalize their drama and blame themselves for it, which means schools don't always recognize what's up and give you what you need. Boys often project their drama outwards onto others, which can yield them lots of services. It's been this way forever and still schools are not always prepared to recognize these issues in girls wtf. It's so frustrating. Just don't do what I did and trust your school to have your child's interests paramount. Schools would rather not implement IEPs if they can get around it with accommodations (which they're not legally bound to and cost them less). If you see behavior in your kid that concerns you and you can afford a private evaluation, I recommend getting one. (Public service announcement of a mom who meant well but feels guilty for not doing more earlier on.)

[Anonymous]

Thank you to the mom who posted above. I have no desire to relive the hell she rained on my child. I hope that she was re-educated and I am truly happy that Nottingham sn kids are being treated fairly. It was not that way at McK under her (add modifier here) leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the mom who posted above. I have no desire to relive the hell she rained on my child. I hope that she was re-educated and I am truly happy that Nottingham sn kids are being treated fairly. It was not that way at McK under her (add modifier here) leadership.

She was the AP at McKinley, not the principal. She was not the ultimate decision maker on those issues, just a convenient scapegoat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the mom who posted above. I have no desire to relive the hell she rained on my child. I hope that she was re-educated and I am truly happy that Nottingham sn kids are being treated fairly. It was not that way at McK under her (add modifier here) leadership.

She was the AP at McKinley, not the principal. She was not the ultimate decision maker on those issues, just a convenient scapegoat.

She was much more than that.

[Anonymous]

OP- if your chid has a speech only IEP, you will be very happy at Nottingham. We love the speech therapist there. Principal seems great too, although we dont have much interaction with her. We love all of our teachers so far!

[Anonymous]

I'd take the private slot..APS is a hot mess after 3rd grade

[Anonymous]

Go private, APS sucks at speech services

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You won’t get speech through APS if you go to private. If you are willing to do private speech either by paying extra and having it at the private (some privates offer this; not all), or if you’re willing to do private speech outside of school and want to stick with private, do that.

Speech only IEP is a pretty minor issue generally and I wouldn’t lump those kids in with the struggling students whose parents are fighting for many other services. Depending on the severity of your child’s speech needs.

Agree. We are at nottingham, and generally the kids with iep are grouped together in a class with an extra teacher. Depending on grade, there can be some really distributive kids. Do you mind sharing what grade?

Speech iep kids are not usually lumped with the learning differences iep kids. I know a few people who work with the in school speech therapist.