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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been to many IEP meetings with parents while working inside and outside the school system. I’ve seen teachers basically be told no you can’t recommend that before IEP meetings. I was always a contracted employee so the school couldn’t tell me what to say or write. Well many might have tried but it didn’t work. Knowing how schools and IEPs are I learned long ago not to join parents if they don’t also have an advocate or attorney with them.

It can get ugly in there and I need to have someone that knows IEP law and be able to ask questions to during the meeting. The school won’t be on your side no matter what they say, sorry it’s just not how it works. I never refer to the school district lawyer even if I’m working in the district, I always consult with the parents and their team. If you want to best support your child then you have to work within the confines of IEP laws. If you don’t know them then you’re basically stuck with a generic IEP that was probably drafted to fit into the current system and make it easy on teachers and cheap for the school.

The point of an IEP is that it’s individualized to meet your child’s needs. Take the advocate, lawyer, and anyone else that knows your child well and go in prepared. Always better to go in with support and gain the respect of the school than have zero support or knowledge and spend months in appeal because you signed off on a bad IEP.

I don’t say this to scare parents. I find they just go more smoothly if you aren’t in it alone. Ideally it should be a collaborative effort, and it usually is when you have someone on your side that knows the law and process. You likely still won’t get everything you ask for but you’ll get individualized support. You’ll also have someone to discuss the IEP process with before and after the meeting which can be incredibly useful because it’s a huge complex system that nobody really ever seems to understand completely. [/quote]

Basically this. Thank you for sharing. This was exactly our experience.

The diff between how we were treated before we hired an EC and after has been night and day.[/quote]

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