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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a sped teacher who has worked exclusively in schools  east of the river, I feel like you have some unfair ideas about the parents you work with.

Every single one of the kids in my inclusion classroom who have IEPS have had very involved parents, even when those parents had lots of challenges like working 3 jobs or taking 3 buses just to get to an iep meeting. [/quote]

Thank you PP. I was offended by OP's post. I am a principal of a Title 1 school. Our teachers work very hard to connect with parents and are very successful, even when well over half of our parents do not speak English. It is rare that a parent does not show for an IEP meeting. We make a visit to the home of each child before school starts just to say hi and that we are excited to work with the family. We always begin every interaction with the assumption that each parent is doing the best he/she can and that we are all working as a team. This is our job as a school.

I wouldn't hire OP with that attitude to work at my school. [/quote]

She wasn't talking to you, and I am glad this is how it works at your school, but you are VERY naive if you think this is how it works at every school. My kids' former school had wonderful teachers and a great principal, but no matter how hard they tried, there were a LOT of parents who never bothered to show up for IEP meetings and were not even aware of their children's diagnosis. You'd be surprised how often this happens despite best efforts on behalf of the school.

OP, thanks for the encouragement! :) [/quote]

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