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[quote=Anonymous]Wow!  Are you me?  Are you in FCPS?  I could have written your exact post.  Last year, when my oldest was in 9th grade, he didn't get his accommodations for the PSAT.  He came home, said he didn't think he did well and I asked, 'why not?'.  He said he asked for them but was told no.  I send a very reasonable email to the school asking about it.  I get a call from his counselor who said that the school can't authorize the accommodations, the College Board does.  I ask why no one told me - he said it must have fallen through the cracks and that I needed to follow up with the College Board.  Note, this is the counselor assigned to kids with IEPs.

I then go to the College Board site to see how to get accommodation.  I learn that accommodations for the PSAT 8/9, which my DS took, are approved by the school, not the College Board.  And, to get accommodations for the PSAT 10 and SAT, I needed to work with the school.  I summarize that information in an email to the counselor and special ed chair.

I get a call from them a day or two later and the special ed chair proceeds to tell me, among other things, that the IEP only covers academics and not all environments and because the PSAT is administered by an outside party they were not required to follow the IEP accommodations!  I call her out on it.  The IEP covers all school activities INCLUDING the PSAT that was administered at the school, during the school day and which the school arranged.  I ended up asking for an IEP meeting with the PSL included.

This year, DS STILL did not receive his accommodations.  I did all the paperwork, sent it to the school and they didn't file it with the College Board!  What a cluster. [/quote]

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