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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, teachers basically told us "no, we don't do social groups here."  They basically refused to change their schedules.  It was ridiculous rigidity.

I have found teachers to be super unhelpful in this regard.  Not saying it's any ONE teacher's job to run social groups, but somebody should be doing it.

Figure it out.  I encourage parents to advocate and fight.
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Parents who want this need to advocate through the IEP process, and not ask teachers to skip things that either are mandated by their employer (like certain numbers of instructional minutes for each subject or attending IEPs) or that are required for the classroom to function like collaborating with colleagues.

If you can convince the IEP team to write this then I will show up as speech therapy or counseling or possibly special education hours and be assigned to the appropriate professional.

But asking a teacher to rearrange their complex schedule, and then calling them rigid for not being able to magically make time is absurd.  [/quote]

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