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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is something I would tell parents of students with IEP's: If you think your child should have a different service placement (outside the HSM) you should hire an advocate/lawyer.

The gatekeeping involved with the central special ed department is off the charts at this point. They will do everything in their power to work to prevent a kid from being moved to a different program because of staff shortages in those programs. Local special ed teachers are POWERLESS (other than collecting data and working on the IEP) to make this happen. The special ed supervisors will stonewall and throw up obstacle after obstacle. Only when a parent is there being persistent and bringing representation do things really happen.  [/quote]

I hate to see this worded like this.  You want grace for teachers who are over burden but don’t have grace for central special Ed supervisors who you admit are trying not to add more to already overburdened teachers in another program.  And the Special ED assistant super as admitted publicly that their are kids who need and should be in private settings but can’t because there are not spaces available.

What I would like to see is continued advocacy for Spec-Ed teaching salary to be a completely different scale.  I also like to see some case management admin support.[/quote]

I would love to see SpEd on a different pay scale. But I fear two things: 1) MCEA would never let it happen, and 2) it would just exacerbate staffing problems, since already budget is the limiting factor for things like paras.[/quote]

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