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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I certainly don't support teachers falsifying reports. But unfortunately what is asked of teachers who care about their kids is impossible.[/quote]

This is 20:39.  If it were impossible, the IEP 'team' would not have agreed to it.  However, there may be insufficient resources to implement the IEP.  That's a different issue which the school must address - and not by lying.

I get how difficult a job this is for educators.  They didn't get into teaching for the paperwork.  Yet, the administrators are all former educators who should better appreciate the challenges their front line teachers face.  I've got 2 kids with IEPs and every meeting we have, I can't help but think how much money has been wasted because of them.  I know how much the IEEs cost because we paid for them out of pocket up front.  We used to have at least 3 meetings for each kid of at least 2 hours each.  The salaries of the central office staff who would come to these meetings, the costs to respond to my state complaint and appeal, the costs of subs to cover the teachers' classes while we were in those meetings, etc.  In the end, we got what we asked for because it was the minimum our kids needed.  Had they agreed to it when the need was first documented by THEM, all these costs could have been avoided and services wouldn't have had to be provided for so long because deficits would have been remediated earlier.  I've got one kid who didn't get to grade level in math until 8th grade.  He hadn't been at grade level since kindergarten, never passed an SOL and had been in a self contained math class 1st-7th grade.  Yet, he was above grade level in language arts/social studies and at grade level in everything else.  Had we not battled as long and hard as we did, they would have kept passing him along from grade to grade until he hit high school.  Then, we would have had to pay for him to take the SOL remediation classes in order to pass the math SOL.  Who knows how many times he would have had to re-take the SOL to pass with a minimum score. It would have been far less costly - financially and emotionally - to have remediated this in the middle elementary school years.  The data was all there but FCPS chose to continue to do what it was doing because he was 'making progress'.  That 'progress' was to slow for him to ever catch up but it met their bar.  It was only through the state complaint that we got FCPS to do what they should have done years before.  With the more intensive instruction, DS caught up in 2 years.  The difference is amazing.  It was an issue of 'possibility', it was a resource issue.  [/quote]

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