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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is awful for some students. I actually had to fight to give up my child’s IEP to get him out if the IEP inclusion class. He has dyslexia and was not really being taught how to read well. The general Ed and special Ed teachers’ and side’s time all got sucked up by behavior and social/emotional problems.

My kid got better services and had a wider choice of friends once he was out of that class. He was in a calmer class and got help from a gen Ed reading teacher. [/quote]What did the fighting look like? What did you do/say afyer the first "no"?[/quote]

I first spoke to the special ed teacher and she said it was a great classroom set up for my kid. So then I called the principal who said it was a great system. When I asked how I could get my son out of the class and transfer to a different class, he said I couldn't because my son had an IEP and that is how the school could met his needs. I asked if he didn't have an IEP could he transfer out and he talked around the issue and said how great it was my son was getting help. I said that is the issue he wasn't learning to read in that chaotic environment. There was a kid who often destroyed the classroom so it had to be evacuated. Another kid who constantly made loud humming noises, another one who constantly shouted out or would try to have have running conversations with others, another kid who would run outside and see if the aide would chase him or not come back after recess so the aide would have to stay outside and beg him to come back inside. I then said I wanted to exit my child from special ed. He tried to convince me it was a mistake, then said he couldn't do anything about it and I needed to talk to special ed people.

So I asked for the contact info of sped supervisor, and put it in writing. She called and when I called tried to convince me not to drop the IEP and threatened that they could file due process for dropping it. I said I didn't care and then they made us have an IEP meeting. The special education teacher of course didn't want to lose an easy kids who didn't have any behavior issues. I had to keep saying I want him out of sped and am working with him at home. Someone else told me not to say I was paying for a tutor because then the district would worry that I would later sue them and get them to pay for the tutoring if we dropped the IEP because supposedly they were the experts and I could claim I didn't know any better. Finally they agreed. Then I had to beg and cajole the principal to switch his class. Finally, it worked and he was transferred into an amazingly calm class with a fantastic teacher. [/quote]

We dropped our iep too as it was the only way out of the classroom.  They were pissed as they needed the numbers to justify the staff.  They did not follow the iep or do much so it wasn’t a loss at all.  [/quote]

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