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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is he receiving appropriate services?  Are his IEP goals designed to remediate or is he only getting accommodations?  I think you should meet with the school and talk about whether he needs some different kinds of support.  The biggest question is WHY does he do so poorly on tests and is there anything that can be done about it?  (tests read out loud to him, use of a scribe, extra time).  Is the tutoring he is getting designed to remediate or is it working on study skills?  How much time per week?[/quote]

I would send a letter to the school asking for a periodic review IEP meeting to address these concerns.  Print out his grades in each class (on Edline if in Montgomery County) and take them as data to the meeting to show the fluctuations in grades.  Will your tutor attend the meeting with you so he/she can provide their expertise and input to the discussion?

Your child may need new goals to address the new pressures of middle school.  My daughter had organizational goals and task completion goals added in 6th grade.  Sometimes the school push advocacy and they are relying on the child asking for accommodations instead of just providing them.  My daughter happened to have her re-evaluation IEP meeting (the one that you have every 3 years) and the school psychologist told the staff she didn't think their expectations for advocacy were realistic and age appropriate.  Talk to your child.  Does your child receive the accommodations he needs and what does he have to do to get them.  (ex. Does he have to verbally remind the teacher in front of his peers what his accommodations are?)

The testing data (educational testing and cognitive testing) should have revealed what your child's potential is and his strengths and weaknesses.  If your child is doing his homework, working with a tutor, and putting forth his best efforts but his class grades do not reflect what prior testing indicates to be his potential, then there is still an educational impact of his disability that has not been addressed.  The middle school environment is much different than elementary school and he may just need additional supports than he has right now to be successful.  Example - does he receive class notes, is there a resource class that teaches organizational skills, has someone explained where he is to go for extra time?  I would be careful stressing your child out about grades if he is putting in the effort.  You could end up seriously damaging his self esteem.

This is middle school, not high school.   Grades will not be on a transcript.  This is the time though to sort these types of problems out.  My own daughter struggled greatly in 6th grade and we honestly had 4 IEP revisions that year.  7th grade was better and she was doing great in 8th grade.  High school is challenging in 9th grade but currently she is a straight A student with a load of honors classes.  Some issues got better with her maturity, such as being willing to stand up for herself and tell the teachers what she needed even if that identified herself as a special education student.  She just got to the point so many teachers did not keep her IEP confidential that everyone knew anyway and she was ok with it.  Her peers never teased her and even thought she was lucky to get some of the accommodations she gets.  Other friends also confided in my daughter that they had IEP's and they began working together to resolve similar issues when they had classes with the same teacher.[/quote]

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