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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you put his course preferences in on the site, or just email them to the counselor? IEPs don't guarantee course placements except for inclusion sections. Contacting administration will just make you look like a psycho who doesn't get that your child isn't more important than any other child. [/quote]

OP here. There was no way to input online directly, I had to go through a particular person. I contacted them in *March*, PP. At the time everyone told me there would be no problem, they'd get him registered. The admin person kept emailing me the wrong courses, I kept saying "no, this is actually the list that was approved", and so on, until TODAY, when she said, "oh by the way there's this one course I just checked and there's no more space".

Who does that?

It's not like we requested a course change at the last minute. I specifically tried to register him as soon as we could, right after the IEP team approved the schedule last spring. 
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What do you mean there was nowhere to input the courses? Did you go to the course registration page? If all you did was email classes to the counselor, you missed a step. Tell Larlo it was your fault he didn't get the class he wanted and don't embarrass him by acting like his IEP puts him at the front of the registration line for elective classes.[/quote]

OP here. I followed directions. I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand. I was told to contact one particular person and not use the website. And yes, I was also told, very explicitly, that the IEP would give him priority for classes. Hence my surprise. Otherwise I wouldn't be on here complaining, PP! 
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People are responding with confusion because what you describe is not the typical registration process.  We go to a different school but if I recall, course selection was in January and involved entering things into the computer system.  We were told that we couldn't make changes after January.

To be honest, I'm sure there must be a process whereby counselors can do something manually for new students in the period between March and June 15.  But people are saying you skipped a step because what you describe is way past the date whereby they tell us no changes.   (And schools are closed over the summer, so if I were to email my counselor for a change of schedule over summer I'm pretty sure nothing would happen til the week before school begins.)[/quote]

Exactly. By the time OP registered by emailing the counselor, everyone else was ahead in line for an elective class. OP unjustifiably calling the counselor incompetent is indicative of what is wrong with so many parents today. Disrespectful Karen. [/quote]

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