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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know how bad this feels having gone through it myself. But it really is a gift. If you want a different placement and the team is not supporting you, it will be up to you to make it happen. You are being given a ton of evidence to support your request without even asking for it. Find a way to document it and organize it so that you are ready next time you meet with your IEP team.

FWIW, it took probably six months to get my son’s placement moved once it became apparent that gen ed was not going to work. But once it changed, the daily reports stopped. Special placements recognize how traumatizing it is to get bad reports. [/quote]

If you want a new placement - I agree, use this as leverage. Let the teacher continue to document the failed placement and her inability to implement the IEP.

But our problem was that we did not want a different placement (because there was really nothing appropriate for our particular kid in the school district or even private). So the frequent messages about bad behavior were upsetting and useless. Useless because they truly just seemed to be an opportunity for the teacher to vent and complain to us, and they failed to give an accurate picture of how he was doing overall. Because of course you never get a message for the 90% of the time things are going well so you never have a real understanding of what’s going on.

Everything changed when we got into a school with an administrator who actually got it and ensured that all communication filtered through the teachers to her, then to us. It wasn’t always perfect but she was able to discuss how the BIP was implemented. That freed teachers up to send POSITIVE messages from time to time about good things they saw happening. I suspect the administration suggested the teachers do that. I can’t overstate how that was just pure gold to hear good things. Not that I wanted to bury my head in the sand, but that I truly could not understand how the placement was working out if I didn’t have a balanced understanding. [/quote]

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