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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS special educator of 15 years here.

Respectfully, it gets real old when people want to blame bad grades on not following the IEP. It's such a cop out.

As a parent, you are on the IEP team too. You bear a lot of responsibility. Sorry if you don't like to hear that but you are one of the most important people on the IEP team.

So over the past half-year have you, as a parent, been:

- communicating with the teacher
- communicating with their case manager
- reaching out to the RTSE
- requesting a parent-teacher conference
- requesting a periodic IEP meeting
- checking ParentVue for missing assingmnets
- setting up routines at home to do work and review Canvas/studentvue
- reaching out to your kid's resource teacher if they have resource as a service on their IEP (which they prob should if they have ADHD and a SLD as you said)

I could go on. I just can't stand hearing over and over and over parent saying "the teacher never emailed me."

Guess who else's teacher didn't email them? Millions of people who went through school prior to like 2010 or whatever.

Hold yourself accountable as a parent. Step it up. You got this.

Sorry if you're offended but your kid is on the verge of becoming an adult. You owe it to them to model personal accountability, good routines, and learning from challenges to get better next time.[/quote]

I’m the parent who successfully contested my son’s grade. MCPS admitted that the teachers didn’t follow the IEP and apologized. My son was given the opportunity to try to pass several classes, which he did albeit with low Ds.

Sometimes despite a parent’s best efforts and active participation in their child’s education, things go wrong because teachers screw up. We don’t know what OP did here but we do know that teachers don’t always get it right either. [/quote]

I'm the person you replied to.

You are 100% right. There are indeed negligent teachers. I do not disagree with you.

I'm glad that you were able to resolve that situation you described.

But at the same time, I believe in [b]most[/b] cases it's the fault of the student and parent for the low grade—IEP or not.[/quote]

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