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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you need an advocate at the meeting, you're already at loggerheads with the school. Bring the advocate won't change that basic fact and they should already be aware.[/quote]

That's not true. You can have a good relationship with the team and still bring an advocate. In fact, we did both - brought one and didn't bring one for 2 different meetings, and while w/o advocate the team was pleasant, they basically ignored everything we said.

With the advocate, the school was called out on the fact that private reports were never "considered" or discussed with us as they should have been when transitioning from IFSP to IEP. That got us an OT eval and report (the report was absolute crap though with our child's birthdate and placement wrong, basically a poor cut/paste job).

I think there are many educators on this board that are bent on accusing parents of controversy, saying advocate=confrontation, etc. just to guilt parents into silence or giving up. They want your kids there with the IEP funding and you out of their hair so they can do bare minimum based on what their admin is pressuring them to say and do.

Even having used and advocate, we are still unhappy with the public school and are giving up and leaving for a private (and taking that IEP funding from our home school). [/quote]

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