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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op my kid has awful dysgraphia and other disabilities and the reaction of teachers to my kid's issues with motor skills was one of the worst issues I had to face. Most teachers blame parents for the child's inability to write. We had 20 iep meetings one year because the football coach/math teacher (he was a horrible teacher) was angry about my kid's dysgraphia and in our first IEP meeting asked why we hadn't taught our kid to write. He bullied and tormented our very scared child. We had to get lawyers and advocates involved.

The ignorance about dysgraphia by school staff is astounding. My kid's case manager and  the Vice Principal responsible for special ed at my kid's high school had no idea what dsygraphia is.[/quote]

We had a teacher like this - bullying DC and me about dysgraphia. I kept getting notes home asking me to stop scribing for my DC because the teacher thought by doing that I was coddling him and that I was the reason he couldn’t write. Once the teacher called me on the phone and I had to ask, “did you read the neuropsych report I gave you at the beginning of school?”  OFC, the teacher had not. I had to cite the page of the report where I was explicitly advised to scribe homework.

That teacher did such permanent damage to DC’s self-esteem that recently, when DC graduated from college (14 years after he had this teacher), DC actually said, “can you imagine if Mr. X could see me graduating from college with honors?  Remember how mean he was to me and how he always treated me like I was stupid?”

I would note hold 20 IEP meetings for a non-compliant teacher. First failure to comply with an IEP gets a polite email to teacher outlining facts of failure to comply and reminding that IEp compliance is a legal obligation. Second failure to comply gets a polite email to principal noting facts of second failure to comply, attaching email chain about first failure to comply, and asking principal to provide “professional education and any necessary resources to bring teacher X into compliance with the IEP”. Third failure to comply gets failure #1 and #2 along with details of failure #3 forwarded to either the associate superintendent of special education or the superintendent with a closing line that says, “I look forward to having this matter resolved within 24 hours so that I do not have to resort to my due process options.”

All emails after the first are also copied to the non-compliant teacher. No one likes to be called out in front of their boss. Smart people also don’t like that a written record of non-compliance in a legal obligation is being created.

IF you’re a teacher and you get fired because I am calling out your failure to fulfill your legal duty, that is not my problem. Teaching is a professional job and if you can’t meet your professional obligations you do not belong in the profession.[/quote]

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