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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Self-advocacy is important, but sometimes kids just need someone with more clout to intervene on their behalf.  You might need to email the teacher about your daughter’s specific difficulties and what level of assistance she needs.  If necessary, could you have the counselor talk with the teacher?  Since the teacher wasn’t at the IEP meeting, they may not really understand your daughter’s situation (even though your daughter has been trying to explain).

As someone with absolutely no official expertise, I think too much emphasis is placed on grades.  Too often, they become the primary goal, as opposed to a rough indicator of how much learning is taking place.  While that function becomes more important in high school, as colleges are evaluating students, it is still just an indicator.  Assuming your daughter isn’t planning a future of building robots, I don’t know that a D is that damaging.  It communicates that your daughter has problems with those kinds of tasks, but presumably that information is already available in her IEP, which can be used to explain the grade, if necessary.  That being said, I’d double check with your school counselor to be absolutely sure it won’t interfere with graduation or her future plans.

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Not all kids can self advocate well, especially if they teacher is not approachable.[/quote]

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