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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. For years I've worked with educational consultants but as you all know, they don't come cheap. At some point I decided I would have to count on the county doing due diligence -- which as I also understood it, was testing every three years.

My DS was on autopilot all through middle school, and they did keep updating his IEP -- tweaking the technology and the accommodations a bit all along the way.

He got the Wilson reading program in elementary, access to an alpha smart, and resource for middle and high school.

Toward the end of middle school last year, his dad, my ex, raised the issue of testing, but I object over the timing -- he was already preparing for a slew of final exams and some standardized tests as well, and I thought it would be distracting and overwhelming.

Now that he's in high school, I feel it's really important that we know to what degree the disabilities that presented themselves in early childhood are still impacting on him. Having that information would prove key in making the decision for example about meds (he's been mostly unmediated over the years); whether or not to keep him in resource class etc. But his high school special ed coordinator -- in a move that really almost sounds like a hostage taking -- is making noises suggesting that he could lose his accommodations if he is re-tested, seemingly making the case that we'd be better off rolling along as is.  Her verbatim reply to me via email is that "the county just does not automatically do updated testing unless there is a good reason, and questions that need to be answered."
The IEP team, she added will discuss it at a meeting scheduled for tomorrow "and then decide what the best course of action will be."

But her conversation on the phone with me several weeks ago was very discouraging about the team seeing the necessity for testing, since in their view, very little visibly has change with him to warrant it.

Have others had similar problems? Sounds like 10:02 in AA County has had quite a different experience.

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