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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends - if they have an iep? I’d tell them that most of the services are delivered by the general Ed teacher because inclusion spec Ed teachers are stretched too thin and we spend so much time on paperwork and not with kids. I’d also tell them no matter what they “advocate for” in the iep, it doesn’t actually happen during the school day due to limited resources and time so half the time we just agree to make you go away [/quote]

+1. And most of these times it's supervisors who tell us what to say and agree. It's not pretty but this is honest because the system refuses to staff appropriately.[/quote]

You have a very strange concept of “honest.” Agreeing to provide something in an IEP that you know you will not be able to provide is not consistent with any definition of “honest” that I’m aware of.[/quote]

We literally are NOT allowed to say we can’t provide it. What don’t you get about that? [/quote]

You can certainly say you *won’t* provide it. And if you know you’re not going to, how would it be “honest” to say otherwise?

Obviously that could lead to due process complaints if those services/supports are really warranted. But if it makes you feel any better, that process is so corrupt in Maryland that parents literally never win.[/quote]

NP. Because if the teacher is honest with the likes of parents on this forum, the parent will sue. The end result, either after mediation or due process, will be tens of hours of time spent away from other students on this dispute, at which point the teacher and paraeducators will be directed to give more attention and hours to your Larlo, at the expense of Aiden, Brayden, and Cayden in the other class being shoved into larger groupings with much less attention, because their parents are less difficult. Extra staff won't materialize out of spare molecules. It's lose-lose. [/quote]

*thunderous applause*[/quote]

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