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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Legally, if everyone got an extra 2 weeks, a student with +50% accommodation gets an extra 3 weeks.

It isn't up to the teacher or any parents on this board to substitute their own judgement about what is or isn't appropriate or whether providing the accommodation is or isn't helpful to the student. The legally required IEP team met and decided what is appropriate in terms of extra time and all teachers, regardless of their personal opinions, are required to implement the IEP.  If a teacher can make their own rules about when accommodations can be used, that completely undermines the statutory requirements of IDEA.

I would respond in writing to the teacher, with a cc to the principal explaining the above and restating what actions need to happen (acceptance of the assignment?) to bring the teacher back into compliance with the IEP.

Then I would take my reply and forward it to the principal and the associate superintendent of education, with a CC to the teacher, share and ask the principal and the associate superintendent of education to provide support to the teacher to help her "come into compliance with my son's IEP accommodations by doing X,Y,Z, so that I do not have to resort to my due process options"

I have found that supervisory special education staff are very quick to respond to opportunities to fix legal non-compliance, and, once provided appropriate direction from supervisors, the non-compliant teacher often becomes compliant moving forward in the future without continuous prompting by parent or student. [/quote]

This is a great way for a teacher who teaches a subjective subject like English to really grade harshly and deal harshly with your kid when you  over-react like this. This is such an over the top reaction for a 7th grade student. And you didn't read the post carefully. The teacher already CC'd the principal when responding to the parent. And the threat of due process over something so minor? You really make it hard for other parents of special needs parents who are contacting teachers because they get so frustrated by such ridiculous threats. [/quote]

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