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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If that’s true it’s outrageous. But I feel compelled to weigh in as a counselor in MCPS. I’ve fought tooth and nail for kids’ right to interventions and have failed to secure services for kids whose parents didn’t show up or understand the processes; whose minority status disqualified them (illegally) because the school felt pressure not to code black kids, and meanwhile, plenty of white wealthy families buy a diagnosis and get a 504 plan if not an IEP. Parents in the know want a plan because their kid gets extended time etc. I’ve never heard of a teacher wanting an IEP so they wouldn’t get blamed for low scores or so they could boot the kid out and into a self-contained classroom. Counselors are usually the ones driving the train, and they don’t have a dog in the fight other than helping the child. Other parents in the class don’t have a right to any of this confidential information, and they definitely can’t dictate what the school does to accommodate another child’s special needs. If anything, plans create more work for teachers, but they like them because at least there’s targeted instruction and it’s helpful to know the kid’s area of struggle. Plus, they might get an extra teacher in the classroom if the kid’s plan calls for it. Long way of saying I think kids NOT getting services they need is a much bigger problem than teachers forcibly coding kids to evade responsibility. I have honestly never seen that or suspected that behavior in15 years in the county.[/quote]

That's great you try to help but for many of us its an uphill battle as the schools only want to do what they want and that's absolute minimum.  They want the IEP's for the numbers to get the paraprofessionals and SN teachers but then they don't help. We had no input on the IEP despite lots of arguments and private testing recommendations from people who have worked with my child for years.  They put my child in groups of kids who had unrelated issues and not working on the same level and called it services.  They put in my child shouldn't be taking standardized tests (I think they recycled some other kid's IEP) and yet they had my child take the tests (and then acted shocked at the scores).  When we went asking for modification they wanted to diagnose my child with something else and not address the issue (minor issue that needed work on).  So, either we fight with a advocate and spend thousands or actually get our child support and pay for private services and tutoring (or go to private school).  There are some great schools but for the most part both personally and professionally I've seen more kids harmed by the lack of support and services than actually helped.[/quote]

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