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[quote=Anonymous]OP here - thanks for the feedback.  I did request a meeting (our version of child study) to request an eval before I posted this.  I was just trying to check my biases with my child.  I actually work for the school division at central office and with older students, which gives me a lot of privilege in accessing support for my children, but also is uncomfortable and results in a lot of blurred boundaries.  We've been implementing an MTSS perspective/system division-wide. I've been doing my best to follow the data and the tiered approach in supporting my children, but

I am honestly upset that his school team did not escalate his interventions and instead left it up to me to bring him to a meeting.  We had his meeting and will complete a full initial evaluation to explore (Specific Learning Disability) and Other Health Impairment (ADHD), though it seems more likely it is SLD impacting him the most.

The meeting was totally fine, but I learned that my child's reading plan has basically the same exact goals on it from last year and his map scores are all over the place & some of his results decreased from last year.  His school was literally just going to keep doing the SAME plan as last year, despite having all this data.  I will always advocate for my children and I know generally how to navigate the system, but there are so many parents who do not know how to do that...it is not easy and it feels awful sitting on the parent side hearing how much your child is struggling.

I suspect this is an issue adapting to MTSS and our new tiered system approach, resulting in major gaps, along with Tier 1 instruction issues but I am going to escalate this with central office to work on addressing these gaps to support all of our kids.  There's a major issue when you repeatedly hear that tons of division staff are having to hire reading tutors for their OWN children who attend this elementary school, and that basically nothing would have been done to support my child if I had not requested an eval.

I've also hired a private reading tutor, but this is going to be a huge drain on my family resources and families should not have to do that.  [/quote]

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