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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I got the report card and it said my daughter is above grade level in reading. I knew she was behind from talking with the teacher. I was relieved to see this. Then I had an IEP meeting with the school to discuss her speech and reading issues. The reading teacher was very clear to say "She is not behind Montgomery County standards. She is behind [our] Elementary School standards". If your child goes to a well-run school, they hopefully will tell you the child needs help. Judging form our experience, I think this poster's school is dropping the ball.[/quote]

Here's the problem. It depends entirely on the teacher. A good assessment should provide some balance and be a tool to understand how your child is doing despite whether the teacher is inclined to address learning disabilities. Your child is young but trust my once you've had several years you will see that some teachers are amazing with kids on IEPs or 504s and some are very bad.

We had one teacher who recognized that even though my child was within range, she was not performing based on her abilities. She had more experience with certain learning disabilities and recognized what was happening. She arranged for pull out services, talked with us about things we could do at home, and took it upon herself to make accommodation in class. My child jumped several levels, her confidence rose, and she learned good skills in dealing with her disability.

We had one teacher who is just plain hostile toward accommodations. She looks at our child and says its enough to just be within range. She didn't care if my child had been stuck on the same level all year because that level was within range. She does assessments through observation only. There is nothing other than her word on any other subject to show that my child needed the accommodations that she was legally entitled to on her 504 and no way to prove that the teacher wasn't doing them. My child's word is not good enough and there are no tests or anything that we could use to push the issue. We're planning on doing tutoring this summer so she doesn't enter next year at the bottom.

The new assessments allow bad teachers to get away with too much.

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