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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Forgive my ignorance, but I’m genuinely curious as to what an IEP does for a teacher. I thought it provided a set of requirements that the teacher needs to follow to give extra help to a student with a diagnosis, in order to ensure the child is not left unsupported. If a teacher is already giving that support, why the desire on the teacher’s part for an IEP? And what can the parents do for the teacher given that they are not the ones in the classroom during school hours?[/quote]

+1.

It resolved them of some responsibility and accountability.  If the child doesnt meet grade level expectations or misbehaves when a visitor or admin is watching, they can blame it on a documented disability rather than their lack of teaching and classroom management skills.   Another thing it does is open up the possibility of having the child removed from the classroom for all or part of the day into a self contained classroom so the teacher doesnt have to deal with it.  None of this would benefit the misbehaving child much whichbis probably why the parents refused. [/quote]

So the child should just be able to disrupt class, disrespect fellow students and teachers. All the while the parents, similar to you, take no responsibility and instead blame the teacher. Nevermind the parents fail to acknowledge the reality of their child or actually help them. Easier to blame everyone else. [/quote]

This is an anonymous forum.  Why do you so confidently assume what side I am on?  The fact of the matter is, in answer to pps question, ieps sometimes do more to help the teacher and other students rather than the misbehaving child.  That is why a child who already receives all the informal accomodations he would need might still be referred for an iep.  There's nothing more the iep would really do for the student.  The iep in that case is for everyone else.  Just needs to be said.[/quote]

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