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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is another side to this.  I am a teacher and in my first year, the IEP person at my school was new too.  She didn't give the teachers copies of IEPs/504s from new and incoming students  So for many months, I have no idea that 3 or 4 kids in my class had an IEP/504 at all.  During the first parent/teacher conference, one parent mentioned it and that is when I went straight to admin about it.  Does every teacher your child has know about the 504?  If so, what are the accommodations specifically?  Preferential seating doesn't always mean sitting in the front.  One of my students sits on the end of a row away from the door.  [b]Honestly, some of the accommodations are crazy IMO.  One year, I had quite a few students who were to have every assessment read verbatim to them which was fine if they were all at school on the day of the test.  When they weren't, it took days and days to catch them up while the other students did independent work.  I don't really think some people realize that the accommodations, while important for their child, impact the rest of the students too. [/b] If I were you, I would ask to meet with the teacher and an administrator to figure out what the problem is.[/quote]

I am an elem school administrator and PP, I am sorry this happened to you. You absolutely should have been told about which students in your class have an IEP and which have a 504. That is the job of the special education teacher and the counselor. You did the right thing by going to your administrator. And yes, preferential seating does not mean the "front" of the classroom. Most elementary classrooms are set up so there really isn't one "front" of the room anyway.

As for the bolded portion, this is where we part ways. You do come off sounding defensive: "Hey didn't come up with these crazy accommodations!" All accommodations, whether for an IEP or a 504, are written as a team. The classroom teacher is mandated to be part of that team and signs off. By law, these documents have to be re-written every year, so you have to have been part of your student's IEP and 504 meetings. Just because some kids are absent on the day of test doesn't mean a read aloud accommodation is "crazy." If you're a good teacher, you'll figure it out. And if you need more staffing to support those accommodations, you'll figure out how to ask for it.  Before becoming an administrator, I was a general Ed teacher for 15 years and always had special education students in my classroom, one year with 13 out of 28 fully included. We made it work because that was our job. [/quote]

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