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[quote=Anonymous]Op,
I've never cried but I've felt wretched before and after IEP meetings. My child is at a great school now with a great administration and I still feel like throwing up after each meeting.

We had to fight to get an iep back when kid was in K. We went through hell in the later years of elementary when he had to deal with a horrible administration and a sadistic special ed teacher. It aged dh and I by a decade.

We never would have survived without an advocate. We have worked with 3 over the years. One wasn't worth the money, another didn't have time to help much and didn't charge much, and the last advocate walks on water as far as I'm concerned.  We also had to hire a lawyer and the group we used were less helpful than the advocate but necessary to help us fight the school.

I've been through this for over a decade and have been on the Wrightslaw website and read the books and participated in other forums and have worked with other parents and I'm still amazed by how little I know and how easily Ive been manipulated.  Even with the advocate, I leave the meetings second guessing the decisions we made. We also get pointed in so many "helpful" directions as far as therapies outside of the school on our dime that I don't know which to prioritize.

I also agree with 05/28/2014 08:45. When we were dealing with our most contentious situation,  we were able to get supervisory special ed staff involved in our case and they reined in the very unprofessional, ignorant, rude, elementary staff. As the pp said, there was no oversight of the elementary staff and they were ignoring my child's IEP and were making up rules that didn't exist that all served their purpose of denying services. The supervisory staff brought an atmosphere of professionalism. We still needed our advocate but the school staff no longer insulted and screamed at us.[/quote]

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