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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't feel alone, it is like that for me too.  When the teacher or I requests a simple meeting just to discuss dd's progress, every single time I go in, the counselor, reading specialist, and also the tutor who was a teacher at school was also there.  We stopped using the tutor partly because we felt so ganged up on.   We use an outside tutor now.   We seem to have a good relationship at school, and I am just used to all these extra people at the meeting.  Then it seems like they use up all the meeting time talking, and I have very little time to talk before the morning bell.  It's very frustrating.[/quote]

I'll say it again, this is an intimidation tactic.  When they have more people at the meeting than you do, they get more time to speak and they have someone there who agrees with them and backs up their opinion.  Even when there is no formal "vote,"  your view is out-voted.  Unless there are specific reasons for each different school staffer to be at the meeting, you are being intimidated.  They rely on the fact that you want a good relationship and don't want to complain.  Don't play into this.  Document it and complain about it.  
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Thanks that is an interesting perspective.  I am new to this process and already sick and tired of it.  But I know we have to trudge on to get the services we need.[/quote]

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