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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I am a sp ed mom. Lying doesn't stop at IEP. Because once they agreed to do something to make the parents "go away" - the teachers have to collect data, enter it in the system and report twice a year. So it's not just semi-innocent forced-by-administration lie. Every teacher that agreed to do something they know they can't/won't do also has to forge records, make up data and lie in writing on the mid-year and end-year progress report. It's not an innocent, "my hands are tied" situation. This is active forgery to circumvent a federal law (IDEA). You absolutely can take it to your prised union and refuse to forge records to your administrator.[/quote]

I quit teaching Sped classes at one school for this very reason. I was set up to fail and nobody - the admin, the lawyers, the parents - cared. I was literally told to be in two places at once or my job would be in jeopardy. When I tried to explain that I’m not superhuman and I physically can’t do what was required, I was threaded. So I quit. This is why we have such a shortage. Sped teachers can’t perform miracles no matter how much the paperwork and the parents demand it. [/quote]

It's not "paperwork" - it's federal laws. If you and your sped colleagues refused to lie and forge, admin would have to request additional resources. And you have union protection, so what can admin threaten? That they will break your fingers?

What everybody knows is that MoCo is the richest county in the state, and one of the richest in the nation. MCPS has a 3 billion $ annual budget. It spends upwards of 20 million a year on lawyers to fight IEPs. It spent a million on a study done by outside consultants how to re-divide budgets of PTAs made up of parent donations in the name of equity (that's not public money and not MCPS domain to begin with). Of course they didn't implement anything from that study, because parents would simply stop donating if it went to a MCPS office that channeled it to some other schools. All this malarkey they somehow have money for. But they scrimp and save on sped, paras, etc PRECISELY because educators and schools keep mum and lie to parents. You understand who it's not poor you? It's you who enables this vicious cycle. 
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Nope. I’m not going to take the blame for you. I quit because I LITERALLY COULD NOT DO what I was being told to do. I’m saying NO HUMAN would be able to do what I was told to do without being gifted supernatural abilities. Instead of lying, I stood up for myself. When I was threatened, I quit.

You can say that I “enabled the vicious cycle” and I’ll call you out on that. You will not get away with bullying me. I’ve been down that road.[/quote]

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