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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'll join the dissenters. If a special educator has 20 students on her caseload, she should spend her first few days reviewing IEPS, creating IEP at a glance documents, communicating with teachers, prepping the classroom, and planning lessons for her students - not meeting with 20 parents. Those meetings can be done once the school year gets rolling. Of course, some students have critical safety issues that must be addressed prior to the start of school.[/quote]

The problem with talking in extremes is that people dismiss you outright.  It is so unlikely that parents of every child in her caseload going to request a meeting before school starts (or even the first few weeks of school) that it may as well never occur.

The school team is welcome to propose another day/time if they can't meet when I suggest.  They don't need to even provide a reason.  In 9 years I've been doing this with kids, no one has ever suggested a meeting day/time that wasn't the week prior or the first week of school. It seems the school recognize these types of meetings are critical and, therefore, a priority.

If a special educator doesn't have sufficient time to plan, prepare and meet with me, she should speak to her administrator.  No different than when I have a significant workload and need my supervisors assistance in identifying the priorities. [/quote]

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