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[quote=Anonymous][quote]but if the school is really not meeting your child's educational needs, I think you have to try to force the issues[/quote]

But as you say, many base schools simply do not have the resources for advanced differentiation before grade 3 and qualification for the AAC. So as a parent, I think you do need to weigh the benefit or lack thereof of being a PITA parent. I realized early on that I could force the issue all I want, but it didn't mean that anything meaningful would change. Everytime I raised a concern, all they offered to do was give her additional work on top of the regular which was not at all what she needed. So we simply tried to give her opportunities outside of school, and things did improve in grade 3. So I guess in your sense I did advocate, but really there was little the school could/would do and so early in second grade I decided to just let it coast and concentrate on getting her into the AAC program.

[quote]I made sure DS was identified early in the school year this year for pull-outs[/quote]

I feel badly for parents who don't realize these things even exist! Although they do not exist at all schools. Our school only does them for math and not reading, and as I said, I didn't know they existed until she was a second grader and she told me about it! She's my older child and so much about school is a trial and error process if you are not in the know about these things.[/quote]

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