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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Thank you for this. I'm an administrator at a Title I school where we don't have parents coming to meetings with lawyers or advocates. Our parents, many of them immigrants, place a great deal of trust in what we say. That is a trust I hold sacred. I take my job as an advocate for children very seriously and have built my entire career around doing what I believe is best for children. I was raised to be an ethical, caring and hard working person. This is what is expected of the teachers I supervise. As a parent, I get that we want the best for our children. I really get it. We work really hard at our school to try to get that right every day. I find that colleagues who support us outside our school are also working at that same level. There are no secrets or confessions I can think of that need to be aired. If I did hold onto something I saw as wrong, and didn't work to correct it, then I'd be complicit in perpetuating that harm. That's not how I operate.[/quote]

Thank you for posting.  I, too, believe that our school teams are hardworking, caring and concerned about my kids.  But, I've been in too many IEP meetings where their proposals were woefully inadequate and flew in the face of recommendations from multiple outside evaluators (including multiple IEEs).  There was never any disagreement on the test results but the recommendations.  There's clearly a check on services. Like 'thou shalt not give more than X'.   I'm not look for the 'best' for my kids.  I'm looking for appropriate.  It's been a battle to get what's appropriate yet, once we get what we battle for, the results show it was the right service/level and we get to keep them in the coming years with no battle.  I can't help but conclude that the IEP teams are informed beforehand what the maximum level of support they are authorized to agree to and they are not to go back to the central office for permission to do more.  It's only when we've required the attendance of a central office person that we get the services our kids need.

BTW - I really appreciate you participating in these threads.  You bring a perspective that is greatly appreciated.  Thank you for all your work with kids (SN or not).  You really make a difference in their lives.

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