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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a tutor with an SN kid of my own.  I am quite confident that my services are on par and often go an extra mile.  That said, I sometimes encounter parents who have unrealistic expectations, cancel to often thus undermining effectiveness of tutoring or expect me to cut my rates for them.  (Once I had a parent tell me they couldn't pay me for work I had done because they had to buy their student a car. This was at a time when neither of my HS kids had a car and my own was a beater.)

I don't negotiate fees.  I make a living doing this. I know support services are expensive because I have paid them for my own SN child.  TBH, IME, the support services that have been ineffective have largely been the ones the school has offered - I got what I paid for, I guess.

IME, the real problem with special need support services is that there are very few scientifically validated instructional approaches.  We would never accept this in medicine, and I don't know why we accept this in special education.  [b]Another problem is, frankly, the state should be paying a lot more to support people with special needs families and their families because - more money and better access to effective instruction, health care, and caregiving (not just during school hours), respite care and adult independent living support and job training, placement and ongoing employment support.  Parents with special needs kids shouldn't be forced to stay home and become caregivers out of necessity.  [/b]

The more independence and participation that can be fostered the better from a public policy perspective. [/quote]

That’s not happening in this political climate.  People will revolt unless their own kids benefit. [/quote]

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