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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the previous person noted, it is important that if you do not agree, do not sign.    We have had the school play games with writing (in our case dysgraphia)-have been told several times that you cannot get an IEP for this, which is not the case.  Just wanted to mention in case you have this issue.[/quote]

Other well-worn excuses not to provide an IEP that I have heard in my 10 years dealing with this.

Your child is doing better than the average student (said when grades are not "failing" - you still can get an IEP with above average grades).

Your child has average skills (said even when the psychological assessment is showing low average, close to borderline scores, discrepant from IQ.  Achievement scores which are highly discrepant from IQ indicate there may be a problem necessitating special instruction. )

Your child just isn't motivated, or is lazy.... that's the problem.

Your parenting is the problem, you just want your child to be smarter than he/she is. You need to accept your child is just not that bright.

Your child's 99th percentile IQ scores are not representative of his ability.  All kids from wealthy families who are able to provide good environments for their growth and development have high IQs.  Thus, the discrepancy between IQ and achievement is nothing to worry about.

All students have trouble with this.  (This line is especially used in the lower grades when all reading and writing skills are considered "in development" and nothing to worry about... until it is too late and harder to fix.)

Our testing shows your child is doing fine.  (Said when the school has not done any standardized, norm-referenced testing, but merely tests that are scored on a highly subjective basis.)

The teachers think your child is doing great.  (I have actually had schools deliberately fail to include teacher reports from classes where DC was struggling, hoping I wouldn't notice their absence in a stack of last minute papers.  I have also had a teacher report describe the student as doing very well, even though the student had gotten Cs, Ds, and Es on all tests and quizzes which were only pulled up by homework completion.)

We can't give you an IEP until we have done "response to intervention". (This is where the school tries to convince you that you can't get an IEP until they try additional teaching methods in the classroom and see if your DC responds.  This delay is explicitly forbidden under IDEA.)

Also, if you disagree with the IEP, make it clear that you will do more than not sign -- that you will pursue your "due process" options.  Make sure you audio record the meeting.  Make sure that you follow up the IEP meeting notes with any addition to the record you want about what was said and promised during the meeting.  We find that the IEP meeting notes are often a very skewed record, and we use FERPA to ask for an amendment to the "educational record" so that our view of what was said during the meeting is on the record.

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I could have written this-really frustrating.  The people who are supposed to help and teach your child hurt them.  We just had an IEP meeting where the school indicated that the findings of our very qualified and respected neurologist must be wrong because they do not agree-would make things harder for school.  They questioned the findings on a number of LD.  Also, indicated that our child with dysgraphia was choosing not to write neatly even though teacher acknowledged issues.  Really disappointed at how shameless schools can be at these meetings.  I really don't get it.

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