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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, we've disagreed with the school team.  We wanted our DS to either have support in all academic environments or in an SN school.  He doesn't need a 1:1 aide but he isn't able to access the curricula in the general ed classroom without support in the classroom.  Our request was well supported by years of data.  The recommendations in the IEEs we had done went well beyond what we were requesting.  The school team discounted the recommendations and proposed continuing what they'd been doing.  DS was making progress but at a rate that caused the academic gap between him and his peers to widen further.  The school team disputed that you could plot achievement over time and project a trajectory of achievement.  They insisted that achievement could only be looked at discretely and not viewed cumulatively.

At various points, I have refused to sign and IEP and, as a PP  noted, I signed and then indicated which portion I was agreeing to and which part I was not agreeing with.  It was well documented in the notes accompanying the IEP and I referred to it in my partial written acceptance.

In the end, we got to the brink of filing a state complaint.  It seems when the school team believed we were serious about it, they did an about face and we got all that we were asking for.  I can't tell you how jaded and bitter I am.  I put on my game face in the meetings, swallow my bitterness and cyncism - for the most part.   :D Every now and then it surfaces and every now and then I acknowledge that I am a creature of my experiences.  Going through this process has taught me a lot and given me some baggage.[/quote]

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