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[quote=Anonymous]In MCPS they will ask every teacher to fill out a teacher report that asks questions about behavior, academics and attention.

Be sure to request these teacher forms as part of the set of educational records MCPS must provide to you 5 business days before the IEP meeting. Of course, teachers are human and generally kind to little kids, and so they often document both strengths and weaknesses on the teacher reports. Our experience was that the IEP team often cherry picks these teacher reports to add only positive comments to the Present Levels of Performance.  It is your right to review the teacher reports and ask that negative information be included in PLOPs.  It will make you feel crappy to do so, but if the PLOPs don't reflect any weaknesses or below grade level or below ability performance, then MCPS will say that there is "no evidence of adverse impact" and you will not get an IEP.

You have to prove 3 things: 1) disability 2) adverse impact on education (which is not solely grades) and 3) need for special instruction.

Since it is early in the year, this year's K teachers might not know your DC well enought to write anything useful on the Teacher Report Form.  So, you might consider whether you can go back to last years teachers in preK or daycare and ask them to document any problems -- you were probably prompted by something to seek evaluation, yes?  If you can provide data within the last year, the school should consider it together with everything they provide.

You can see the Teacher Report Form here - https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/forms/pdf/272-7.pdf[/quote]

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